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Hellboy (2019)
Crap
Clunky dialogue delivered woodenly by more or less everyone. Humour falls flat and the attempts at British accents by 2 of the main characters are awful. I don't see why they couldn't have just hired British actors. Story wasn't great, lots of exposition, cliches etc. CGI is generally poor, particularly the blood effects, ghosts and some of the monsters possessing a glistening quality. Demon designs at the end are pretty good, as is Baba Yaga and her set design, though it does overdo the disjointed creepy crawly thing a bit. Hellboy costume looks like a costume, it doesn't look natural, but his is definitely best performance wise. Music is generic, but does feature a few good songs. Eye-rolling scene with Nazi scientists and a lot of hamfisted diversity throughout the film. Playing a fast and loose, cheesy game with myth and folklore as well, which the previous films did better at, as did the comics (at least it seems to me).
Doom: Annihilation (2019)
Don't Bother
Feels like it was filmed in a theme park set, put its own unappealing spin on demon-design and suffered from a very heavy dose of laughable girl-power, lacked any bad/cheap-movie charm and lacked Doomguy.
Was barely able to keep attention and my eyes barely stopped rolling. At least the 2005 film, though bad, was a lot more fun.