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HELLBOY ***
Dir: Neil Marshall (15, 91 mins)
Guillermo Del Toro made two very good Hellboy movies starring the excellent Ron Perlman, capturing the monstrosity and wit of Mike Mignola’s comic book creation – a red half-demon with horns and a Right Hand Of Doom made of stone. After years of unsuccessfully attempting to get a third film underway, the comic book mantle has passed to Dog Soldiers and The Descent director Neil Marshall, with David Harbour from Stranger Things donning the crimson prosthetics. Playing the hellish offspring rather younger than Perlman, Harbour’s adversary comes in the form of Milla Jovovich’s Blood Queen. Ian McShane is on twisted mentor duties with Sasha Lane and Daniel Dae Kim as trusty sidekicks. Taking place very much in the UK, this looks to be a CGI-heavy, jocular and gory installment in the stalled franchise, although whether it will boast Del Toro’s surreal bestiary and moments of heart is open to question. Nevertheless this should be a formulaic, fun timewaster for fans of darker Deadpool-esque anti-heroism.
words Keiron Self
Opens Apr 11