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"\n<p><strong>Starring: </strong>Ron Perlman, John Hurt and Selma Blair<br /><strong>Director: </strong>Guillermo del Toro<br /><strong>Rated: </strong>M15</p>\n<p>ON October 9, 1944 the Allies lay siege to a Nazi science installation.</p>\n<p>In this institution the Nazis had been experimenting on an extraterrestrial being, a demon, by applying radiation on him.</p>\n<p>During the battle the radiation plant explodes and the demon comes to life. Hellboy is born.</p>\n<p>Twenty years later Hellboy is a pampered prisoner of the US intelligence services, let out only to apprehend the most ghastly of fiends.</p>\n<p>Hellboy is sad and lonely, until he falls in love with Liz Sherman (Selma Blair). It is an unlikely romance fraught with obstacles.</p>\n<p>Based on Mike Mignola's comic book character, Hellboy is a loud, fast-paced series of fight sequences and theological arguments. The fights get boring and the theology is incomprehensible.</p>\n<p>Littered throughout the film are references to the Vatican, apocalyptic imagery, earnest discussions about good and evil, and rosaries and crosses everywhere.</p>\n<p>The best feature in the screenplay is the self-deprecating humour.</p>\n<p>Ron Perlman, in the title role, gets the best lines and delivers them to perfection.</p>\n<p>Director Guillermo del Toro, who blankets this film in monochrome sets and filters, doesn't let his sober visual tastes stand in the road of the light relief.</p>\n<p>With such profound lines like, 'In the absence of light, darkness prevails' the poorly named and much maligned Hellboy emerges from the shadows to save the day.</p>\n<p>This film is only for the most ardent student of metaphysics a la science fantasy.</p>\n"
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