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Hellboy (2004)
Perlman with a Toilet Roll...
I usually like the big good-natured bad asses Ron Perlman invariably plays, whatever movie he is in. Usually though, he is only a sideshow to the main characters and storyline, not so here. This big good-natured bad ass has the whole show to himself and it's just not enough to fill a movie. I've never read any hell boy comics, so maybe I'm just missing the allure of a big red painted man with a toilet roll for a right hand prancing around and hitting stuff...
I did like the Nazi-Voodoo stuff. Reminded me of all-night games of Return to Castle Wolvenstein and that robot dude had (for me anyway) some cool references to BloodRayne.
As for the plot, nothing there you didn't see coming from the line at the ticket booth.
So, basically if you liked League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and/or are an avid player of RtCW you can probably suffer through this movie. If not, don't bother going.
Anthrax (2001)
Unrealistic but entertaining.
Warning, possible spoilers ahead, read at your own risk. Then again, given the title, you can probably come up with 80% of the storyline already...
This is an obviously low-budget thriller meant to play on people's recent fear of terrorism. If you set your expectations as such you won't get disappointed.
Good points are some likable characters and seeing cancerman make a fool of himself. Bad points are plot holes, plot twists you can see coming a mile away and no apparent concessions to logic, procedure or even common sense.
The timeline is rather vague, but why does it take several days for anyone to start checking entry logs? And why on earth is a country hick leading the investigation into an outbreak with the potential to kill millions of people? And why... Oh well, it's just a late night tv movie.
Watch it if there's nothing better on, but don't bother going out to rent it.