Hellboy: The Crooked Man is the closest a film has come to capturing the aesthetic of the Mike Mignola Graphic Novel but that is quite literally the best thing about the film, everything else ranges from extremely average to just plain bad.
Immediately I knew I was in for another fairly cheap attempt to cash in on whatever fans chose to see this film by the god awful CGI in the opening, but I thought its a low-budget film, a bit of bad CGI can't ruin a movie and it doesn't, the weak script, lack of character development and one dimensional bland characters do that for it.
Its not all bad, Jack Kesy gives a pretty damn accurate depiction of the Hellboy from the comics, but the makeup only really looks good in the nighttime scenes, during the day it looks a bit cheap and like the wish store version of Hellboy, he isn't a touch on Ron Perlman and nor is he better than David Harbour, but he's fine.
Other than that, there's a few good scenes with the crooked man but its all too generic to ever be impactful. Yes the character looks good but nothing is done with him, there is no sense of danger because he's attacking characters we barely know or care about.
Its average, painfully so at times and then it ends I'm afraid.
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