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Film Review - Hellboy: The Crooked Man

HELLBOY THE CROOKED MAN 1

It hasn’t been easy for “Hellboy” to win over a mass audience. It’s more of a cult appreciation situation, but producers keep trying to make something happen with the Mike Mignola-created character and his battles with monsters and mayhem. Instead of spending (and losing) big bucks on another reboot of the series (last seen on screens in 2019), “Hellboy: The Crooked Man” goes the small-budget route, trying to pull together a reasonable adventure for Hellboy for a limited amount of money and only a few shooting locations. It’s a backyard version of a “Hellboy” movie, with directorial duties handed to Brian Taylor, who’s not an inspired filmmaker (“Jonah Hex,” “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,” “Gamer”), and continues to struggle here. “The Crooked Man” looks and plays like an episode of a television series, with little excitement and a dreary story that makes the 90-minute-long run time difficult to endure, with Mignola himself (credited as co-writer) unable to breathe life into his own creation. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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