"Hellboy" without Guillermo del Toro is a waste: All muscle, no beauty or heart

Watching the "Hellboy" reboot is like eating a rice cake — you don't feel bad afterward, but at the same time you're not entirely sure you really experienced anything at all. It certainly wasn't the impact left by the two previous movies starring this character, Guillermo del Toro's 2004 masterpiece "Hellboy" and its worthy follow up in 2008, "Hellboy II: The Golden Army." Thanks to del Toro's direction and writing and Ron Perlman's iconic performance in the titular role, the original "Hellboy" movies were visually stunning and were suffused in a moody, gothic tone that made them feel more like horror or fantasy epics than traditional superhero flicks. If this had been akin to del Toro's "Hellboy" movies, I'd say it was worth the watch.