Hellboy Review: 3 Ups & 7 Downs

1. It's Probably Killed Hellboy Movies Forever

The movie's worst sin ultimately won't be that it's badly written, directed, edited and often acted, but that it has probably poisoned the Hellboy brand forever more.

Guillermo del Toro famously campaigned to make Hellboy III for years, but due to his requested budget and the tepid commercial performance of Hellboy II (falling just shy of doubling its budget), the producers pressed on with a reboot instead.

But the critical failure and likely middling commercial performance of this reboot makes any further Hellboy sequels extremely unlikely, at least for the foreseeable future.

It may ultimately fall to the property being rebooted yet again in another decade-or-so, or more likely, producers will just realise there isn't that much commercial viability in the character. As great as the del Toro movies were, they didn't exactly set the box office alight.

So, the new Hellboy pretty much sucks, then. But it's not all bad, and here's what little it gets right...