Hellboy the crooked man 2024 Horror/Action Movie Review

Paul  Branson

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00:00Hello everyone, this is Paul Branson Reviews, and today I'm reviewing a movie.

00:07I had the opportunity to see the new Hellboy movie.

00:11As far as I know, it was only on a $25 million budget, a very low budget for a Hellboy movie.

00:17Now if you remember the other Hellboy movies, they made two of them, and a remake that not

00:21a lot of people liked.

00:23They wanted to see a third movie of Hellboy.

00:25If they did make one, I apologize, I just flat out didn't see it.

00:29But this is a brand new one that came out this year, 2024.

00:33I had the opportunity to see it early, and I'm glad I did.

00:38I'm glad I did, and I'm also glad I didn't, I should say.

00:41Now let me explain.

00:43Now these are some actors that I've never really seen too much of.

00:47I've seen them here and there in little movies here and there, but they're not really big

00:52actors.

00:53But the person who played Hellboy, he's an amazing actor.

00:56He played Hellboy perfectly, and even the cast itself, let me say this, even so I haven't

01:03seen them in much, or I've never seen any of them act before, it was a perfect cast.

01:08There is no doubt about it.

01:10Now this is the director.

01:11He directed this whole thing, and he did a fantastic job directing it.

01:16I'm not saying he didn't.

01:17The obvious music was perfection.

01:20The storyline was really good.

01:21It was called Hellboy, the Crooked Man.

01:25Now I just had a few issues with it, and one that actually really irritated me, but

01:32I'm going to get into that now.

01:34I'm kind of tongue-tied because it is a good movie in general, and it is good on a budget.

01:40Now it feels like an 80s movie.

01:42It really does, and it's set in the 1950s, and I believe it's supposed to be set between

01:47the first and second movie in the middle.

01:50That's what I believe.

01:51That's what I kind of read, but I'm not really sure.

01:54This director also directed Crank 1 and Crank 2, I believe.

01:59He was an assistant, so there's two directors that directed those movies, but he directed

02:04this movie on his own.

02:07Now what I really liked about it, the opening scene caught my attention.

02:10They're bringing something back on a train, a creature in a box.

02:16It obviously gets out, and this is right at the beginning of the film, and this is the

02:20premise of the film, and I won't really say too much more.

02:23When the creature gets out, the train tumbles over.

02:27So now they're in the middle of nowhere in the woods trying to get the creature.

02:30Fantastic fight scene.

02:32There was also another scene later on that actually scared me.

02:35Even so, it did seem a little cheesy, but it was good special effects for the low budget

02:40as it was.

02:41$25 million is fairly a low-budget film for this type of thing.

02:45Now I even could be wrong.

02:46It could have even been a cheaper budget than that, but that's what I saw when I was looking

02:51up things.

02:52Every time I look up things, I find out later I looked it up wrong.

02:55How dumb am I?

02:56So if I looked it up dumb and this was cheaper, they did a really good job on the special

03:00effects, and the ominous music was really good.

03:03It really, really was.

03:05Now this all being said, now the creature got away.

03:10So now they're trying to find a phone, but they're in the middle of the woods, and the

03:13woods seem creepy, ominous music.

03:16They find a person that lives in the woods, but they have no phone.

03:20And the dialogue is funny, and it's very entertaining.

03:24It is very entertaining.

03:26Now I'm not going to tell you some of the actors that are in here.

03:28I did tell you the director directed Crank 1 and 2, or helped with it.

03:32I did tell you that the other, the person who played Hellboy has been in some good movies.

03:39And there are some very, the acting is really good.

03:41And even the villain and the story of the crooked man got my attention.

03:46But the problem with it was they overused the music.

03:50They overused it.

03:52They overused it way too much.

03:55I was getting ticked off because I was like, no, I don't, I want to hear, I want to hear

03:59what they're saying.

04:00And then the music got a little loud and I couldn't hear what they say.

04:03But that could be my hearing problem too.

04:06I couldn't hear what they were saying.

04:07I was like, why so much ominous music in the background?

04:11Why so much?

04:12I want to hear the actual natural sounds of wind and the creaking door and the scariness

04:18of something rushing by them.

04:19No, I didn't hear footprints.

04:21I didn't hear anything.

04:22I just kept on hearing that ominous music in my head over and over again.

04:26And it was starting to drive me crazy.

04:30But the story was good.

04:32The story was good.

04:33And the voices were good too for the characters.

04:36Now I'm not going to tell you what it's about, but it's obviously they're in the woods now

04:41and Hellboy wants to help them because there's something going on in that community, in the

04:46woods because there is a slight community in the woods.

04:49And there's this old church.

04:51There's a lot of stuff that goes on.

04:53And there's some scenes that really did creep me out.

04:56Like one person got lifted up in the air and something happened and that just creeped me

05:01right out because that was a perfectly good scene.

05:04But the music ruined it for me.

05:07And on IMDB right now, they give it a 5.1 out of 10.

05:13And I've read some reviews and they're not really saying too much about the music like

05:18I am, but overall I liked it.

05:20And the ending was a little, the ending could have been slightly better.

05:24But overall he played an excellent Hellboy and the cast was great.

05:27I give it, sadly enough, I give it a 5 out of 10.

05:30So I kind of agree with the critics.

05:32They give it a 5.1 or 5.2 out of 10.

05:36That's where it's sitting at on IMDB right now and I give it a 5.0 out of 10.

05:41If you took out the music and maybe fixed the ending a little bit, I think this could

05:46be a fantastic film.

05:48I really do.

05:49Because the story itself was incredible.

05:52And I do think it's definitely worth a watch.

05:54So I would definitely watch it and you would recognize some of the actors for sure.

05:58They haven't been in a whole lot and some of them have, but more lower budget movies.

06:02And I would love to see the director direct again.

06:05But keep out the music.

06:06It was just way too much.

06:08But the fogging and the creepiness of the whole story was excellent.

06:13All right everyone, a 5 out of 10, I'm sorry to say.

06:15And I probably will try to watch this again.

06:18Maybe I'll try to take out some of the music and I actually might like it better.

06:21Because I think if the music wasn't there I'd probably give it a 7.5.

06:25All right everyone.

06:26Well, I do like the music.

06:27Okay, I want to make that clear.

06:28It was just too much.

06:29All right everyone, bye for now.

06:31It kind of made it unwatchable after a while.

06:35But I still struggled through because it was an interesting story.

06:38Bye for now.

06:39Have an incredible day.

06:40Thank you for watching and check out my other movie reviews and recommendations.

06:44And adios everyone.

06:45Adios, if that's properly, if I'm allowed to say that, I'm not sure.

06:50Bye for now and thank you again for watching.

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