An average movie

Just before breaking through with ‘El laberinto del fauno’, Guillermo Del Toro made this comic-book adaptation. Since Del Toro was not yet widely well known, when it was released, it was only a modest success but it is has nowadays reached a cult status. To be honest, I’m not really familiar with this comic-book character but I must admit it, he is definitely a really cool and bad-ass fellow and Ron Perlman was perfect for this part. His background was also pretty interesting and I also enjoyed the other characters like Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien. Furthermore, it was visually quite appealing and there were plenty of impressive action scenes. Still, even though I enjoyed most of it, I still don’t think the whole thing was really amazing. I mean, the story was not bad but nothing really impressive but, above all, I didn’t care much about the tone. Indeed, the whole thing was constantly tongue-in-cheeck, after a while, it really wore me down and I think I would have enjoyed it more if the whole thing would have been darker. To conclude, in spite of its flaws, I still think it is a decent comic-book feature and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre or if you are interested in Del Toro’s work.

6/10