What a terrible movie.
Flawed in everything. Acting. Directing. Writing, oh, especially the writing. Some of the dialogue is beyond terrible. and some of the scenes are even worse.
I’m a huge fan of Guillermo Del Toro, The Devil’s Backbone is one of my favourite movies of all time. And the rest of his are pretty special too, even Mimic is watchable. I always thought, here’s a guy that I’m willing to trust, willing to let him take me where ever his over active imagination wanted to take me, but now, I don’t know. But, Hellboy 2, is just plain unwatchable for roughly 95% of the duration. From the opening sequence with a young, ridiculous Hellboy, the tone was set for something that not only wasn’t going to take itself seriously, but wasn’t going to take the viewer seriously either. (more…)
