Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Zinco Epilogue (2008 Video) User Reviews

Hellboy II The Golden Army - Zinco Epilogue: What could have been.....

[Platypuschow · 5/10 · 3 July 2018]

Not being a great Hellboy fan I was never likely to be blown away by Hellboy 2's epilogue or prologue but I went in hopeful regardless.

This epilogue interestingly was meant to be filmed for real and added to the movie as a final scene to set up for Hellboy 3. Sadly due to them not having confirmation that the film would ever be made they chose not to film it.

Thankfully they animated it as a DVD extra so that we could see what could have been and a tease of what the creators had planned for the ill fated third movie.

Filmed in a comic book strip style there is very little that can be done in 4 minutes but they do a decent enough job. Both speech bubbled and voiced this is a passable little effort which is a must for fans of the franchise.

Despite not being a Hellboy fan I appreciate the effort that went into this and am more than a little saddened that fans never got their third film.

The Good:

Interesting enough

Makes up for the scene never being filmed

The Bad:

Underwhelming for non Hellboy fans

Things I Learnt From This Short:

Even in a world where movies still show Nazi's as bad guys do we have the real thing ever present

An intriguing prelude for Hellboy 3...A movie that sadly probably will never be made.

[Rectangular_businessman · 7/10 · 28 February 2022]

It's such a shame that Hellboy 3 probably will never be made. Judging by this motion-comic, the plot from that movie would have been something pretty interesting.

Sadly, what we got instead was the awful 2019 reboot.

Such a shame, indeed.

Short comic book movie

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 30 October 2015]

"Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Zinco Epilogue" is a 5-minute movie from 7 years ago and so far the last piece of action from the "Hellboy" franchise. The director is Brooke Burgess and it's not the only short Hellboy film she made. However, I preferred her prologue to "Hellboy 2" over this epilogue. I believe this one here really would have needed the actual Hellboy character to be interesting and not just a bunch of supporting characters. I cannot even recommend this one to fans of del Toro's movies, because I am one myself and I did not have a great time at all watching this one. Negative verdict here, thumbs down. I really hope del Toro will make a third film at some point. These 5 minutes are no way to finish things.