SUBMITTED BY Typhon24

April 1, 2004 —

From Entertainment Weekly's review of 'Hellboy':

''Hellboy'' has been directed, by Guillermo del Toro, with a colorfully kinetic visual imagination that seldom lets up. Del Toro, the former art-house creep-meister turned megaplex fantasist (his films include ''The Devil's Backbone,'' ''Mimic,'' and ''Blade II''), knows just how long to hold a shot of blood oozing through an ornate stone maze or ghouls flying through a ghostly museum so that we feel as if the sets and effects are serving the story rather than the other way around. He shows far more narrative finesse than was evident in such recent comic-book duds as ''Daredevil'' or ''The Hulk'' or ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'' Perlman, acting under all that makeup, gives a performance of gruff sympathy that, at moments, comes close to wit. I enjoyed myself for most of ''Hellboy,'' yet the movie, a highly derivative compendium of geek dreams, is little more than a well-executed contraption.

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