DAMON CATT

I found the film to be first real attempt to really capture Big Red. The movie is comical in a deadpan sort of way. It's less a case of mining the source material for comedy and instead taking it seriously and imbuing the film with a kind of world-weary pathos. It subtracts the more loopy elements of the comic and only adds to the original story where such additions benefit the film. The actor who plays Hellboy is excellent,giving a layered performance that gives Hellboy the kind of weight he needs to have when facing off against the bizarre adversaries that populate the movie. The director expertly makes the landscape a kind of character itself. Very spooky. A brilliant sound track continually unsettled the viewer. Perfect for Halloween! the

Though Alien Romulus is a good-looking film,I found it quite predictable. It will probably be more impressive to newcomers. It is similar to Prometheus in that it looks wonderful but it is full of things that don't make a whole lot of sense. The idea that the characters would be able to blast off from their back yard seems a bit unlikely,especially in a corporate,authitarian setting. Also,I'm somewhat at a loss as to where all the facehuggers and xenomorphs actually come from. And why the facehuggers seem to be in artificial eggs. It's implied that the xenomorphs from the first film killed a lot of people before it was finally dispatched. So why go out of your way to recreate a creature you know will get out of control and kill you some more. It these inconsistencies that undermined Prometheus and Covenant. It's annoying to find that the people behind these films always forget to come up with a plot.