another hellboy movie, not woke, just demonic stuff and a badass cristian protagonist.

Cheap but entertaining.

Cheap is relative: the reported budget for this is enough to shoot a whole Godzilla movie. Still, it’s the cheapest instalment in the Hellboy franchise (as far as I know), and it does show at times, such as the opening sequence, which suffers from average CGI and a very flat-feeling picture. Almost reminded me of the first Evil Dead. Might have been on purpose.

Kesy does a very good job as Big Red, although the make-up, especially the hand, could have been better. They should have dropped the bad CGI and spent the money there. Like animating the tail; the tail was always very expressive.
But Kesy’s got the smack-talking, wisecracking no-frills bad-assery down pat, more than Perlman ever managed.
The mystical Southern mood is pretty well set, and the music is spot on.
The script is classic Mignola Hellboy; it doesn’t get much better than that. The reworked ending has some real good in it.

Now for the bad: the script writers forcefully inserted a DIE hire (DIE, not DEI, I’m old-school like that), because it won’t do to have all white male leads. HB technically is a bright red male, but he was raised white, I suppose.
The original comic by Mignola and Corben is pretty stream-lined, even minimalistic to an extent, and it's a two-seater. The extra character is disruptive and useless in most scenes it appears in. Noisy too. Must be my age showing. Rudolph is quite fetching, but nowhere near enough to make the addition bearable.
She’s not overbearingly girlbossing, and there’s no preaching. It’s an unfortunate in-between, really: the Morally Superior (tm) will see the character as tame and subjugated by The Patriarchy (tm), and the intellectually not-impaired will just wonder, if it serves no purpose, why put it in?
And of course, she saves the day, because of course. Drivel, I tell you, woke drivel! (shakes fist at the sky).