John Leguizamo cannot act. Lacking in all kinds of subtlety, what he does is perform. Like a trained ape or dancing bear, and for pretty much the same crowd. He has that kind of stupid that New Yorkers have, the one where they think they are tougher than everybody else because they came from New York (!). Combine that with his being short and you have someone who comes across as the same obnoxious person in every role. He completely overdoes everything. Laughs too hard, gets too angry, talks to fast and too forcefully. He needs to ram himself down the audience's throat to be seen. As a stand-up he was/is, forcefully, annoyingly unfunny and struck me as an attention-whore.


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I would never have guessed that the guy under all that make-up in Hellboy was Ron Perlman. That's the guy from Beauty and the Beast, the old cult TV show. My mom loved that show. Hellboy has an interesting premise, from the comic-book, and is more sc-fi (the idea of an escapable hell can be nothing else) than it is anything else. The movie, like others of the genre (Spawn, also with a good premise), however is not particularly interesting. They are all based on the old Ghostrider comics with their theme of getting out of damnation. It has good story touches like a vicious Nazi assassin addicted to surgery, and Rasputin as the main bad guy.