Hellboy - Kritiken

Thanks to his [Ron Perlman] gruff, blue-collar charisma, a character who could easily have been just a big, scarlet special effect works like gangbusters.

...Ron Perlman's performance is anything but heavy; he plays Hellboy with the airy, cynical shrug of a charming repairman.

It's easy to see what attracted Guillermo del Toro to Mike Mignola's Hellboy comic: its hopeful humanity.

...witty moments help alleviate the film’s more unwieldy and banal machinations...

...in Ron Perlman, it has found an actor who is not just playing a superhero, but enjoying it...

...a personal project full of dark, brooding imagery and cast as personally as any indie work.

It's no stretch to say that Perlman is the primary reason Hellboy works.

...Ron Perlman plays the adult Hellboy to perfection: part blustery, stogie-chomping tough guy in a mean leather duster, and part angsty teenager...

Nyd filmen, og tænk ikke for meget over den. Der er gang i den, og de visuelle effekter er så vulgære, at det virker originalt i en tid med mange selvhøjtidelige superhelte- og fantasyfilm.

...är inte bara ett saftigt actionäventyr, här utspelas också ett näpet skönheten och odjuret-drama mellan Hellboy och den flicka som han älskar, den eldfängda Liz.

Allt som allt, nästan lika bra som ”Spider-Man 2” men utan den filmens perfekt balanserade intrig.

'Hellboy' er glimrende portrætteret af Ron Perlman, der fanger både den brovtne og bidske side af dæmonen...