Hellboy, 2019 version. David Harbour is solid as Hellboy, a rougher, "younger" feel that Ron Perlman's take, but he does a lot with what he has. Alice Monaghan is in this one rather than Liz, which is nice if you like the canon (and I do), though here she is a played by an African-American actress as a Londoner rather than Irish, but Sasha Lane does a good job as well. And Emma Tate and Troy James (voice and physical actors, in order) do an amazing job with Baba Yaga.
Other than that? They try to use way to many pieces of Hellboy comics for the storyline - like all of them, so it is disjointed. There are too many bad guys to list, and only Baba Yaga comes off frightening. Milla Jovovich, who plays Nimue, the main Big Bad of the stories for the most part, has almost nothing to work with. In The Golden Army, Nuada, the baddie, was shown to be a noble, doomed hero, trying to save his people from slowly dying due to humans constantly breaking the treaty his father insists on holding. He is an extremist, and a villian, but you know why and that makes all the difference. Nimue, The Blood Queen, queen of the faerie, just wants to kill the humans so the "monsters" can have their own Eden. She has a plague, that sort of shows up and then flutters out. She is raising an army...that never shows up. She has a plan, maybe, and Hellboy is part of it, but it is never really explained. There is a prophecy, or a seeing, and/or some destiny... none of which is really explained or has much reason except for people to try to seduce or murder Hellboy at random. It is totally scatter shot.
It embraces the "R" rating with random f-bombs and bad, CGI blood. A lot of bad, CGI blood, especially in the last act where the movie seems to remember it is rated "R" so it kills some a bunch of random, CGI people in bloody ways for no real payoff other than being gory-ish. And the GGI at other points is terrible, with the fight against a trio of giants as the most obvious. One of the things that made Baba Yaga so good was that she was a practical effect, using great make up and a truly gifted physical performer contorting his body in an inhuman manner, but is shows up the rest of the effects.
So tl;dr: Harbour is good, Baba Yaga is fantastic, rest of film is bad. And as they bombed big time, there probably won't be a chance to make another with a good villain as shown in the stinger. Well, the last stinger. This had more stingers than an MCU film.
