The ingredients are grade A, but the recipe is lacking something. Like I think it's funny, but I never connected with it in any deeper emotional way. It out classes more than most of the Shane Black/ Tarantino Crass Action Comedies horde.
The weakest of Martin McDonagh's film ouevre. I prefer it when he is in his stage play mode.
Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken are killing it in two completely different ways.
Hellboy (2004) - Wonderful
Hellboy 2 (2008) - Masterpiece
Hellboy (2019) - Just awful. Ugly, mean spirited and juvenile.
Hellboy (2024) - Kind of good/ok. It's not good "good." It's so cheap. It doesn't feel like the 1950's at all. Costumes are bad. But it does have something. It at least feels true to the comic. The only problem is that it's adapting a story I don't care for. Richard Corbin's work is ugly, I don't care how popular he…
Mean spirited and shallow. The story felt like it was written by a edgy 13 year old boy, who thought he was smarter and more mature than anyone in the school. Probably wrote this in his school notebook just to worry his teacher and get his parents called into school for a conference. Hoping that someone would finally pay attention to him.
There are nuanced ways to discuss trauma, revenge and the neverending cycle of violence. This isn't one.
