** – Global Warming personified attacks an oil drilling team stationed in the pristine Arctic wilderness of northern Alaska in this 2007 ode to environmentalism starring gorilla-faced behemoth Ron Perlman and some other guy. Perlman plays the crotchety head of an oil-drilling team team who is at loggerheads with a guy hired by the company to validate their rape of the natural world but ends up being an enviro-freak whistleblower who tries to halt the whole project. While Hellboy may not be successful in stopping the environmentalists from closing down the drilling or keeping the weird dinosaur ghost thingies that attack them from killing the vast majority of the crew, he does do a masterful job of cock-blocking the hired analyst, as he manages to also get him killed and therefore unable to bop the marginally attractive lady on the team for whom they both have the hots. I guess your options are pretty limited when you’re in the Arctic. On a non-plot level, this movie was not very well executed. The direction was poor and the editing was very choppy, not to mention the fact that all the attempts at special effects were far from special. It also moved rather slowly and didn’t have anything even remotely creepy, which is a pretty big flaw for something supposed to be a supernatural horror/thriller. Overall, it’s not a very good movie. It seems to have good intentions and it tries pretty hard to be challenging and interesting, but ends up being boring and pretty hard to watch. Plus, Perlman seems to have been having some sort of salivary problem during filming, as he drools and slobbers continuously throughout this thing. That’s rather disgusting.
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