Director: Ang Lee
Writers: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
Story: Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers an accident that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.
Starring: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott
The Hulk is quite the opposite of the thinking man’s superhero. You merely need to know two words to enjoy a good hulk movie: ‘Hulk’ and ‘Smash'.
This movie completely disregards this basic principal of the rage-induced behemoth. Instead it decides to focus on the backstory and the inner turmoil that Bruce Banner is going through. This is why I feel that the ‘Avengers’ is the best Hulk movie ever. It doesn’t need to explore anything other than unrelenting, non-stop destruction. You would expect a lot of destruction from a movie with such a frontman. However, there is a distinct lack of such action. This is shown in that it takes over forty minutes for the Hulk to first appear. Even after that there’s only four scenes with the Hulk in it and one of them is used to show the Hulk murder three of the most disgusting CGI dogs ever.
One of the most infuriating things about this movie is that the Hulk always stops moving. Why would a being of seemingly unlimited power and strength that is fuelled by rage stop smashing things? Imagine if one of the red lanterns just stopped attacking something because they wanted to feel all their other emotions. It just makes no sense. I just want to see Hulk smash things.
All this horrific nonsense aside, I suppose the transitions are cool. They really help to tie the entire movie together (as most transitions should) and they also are really cool and creative throughout the entire movie. More than this, the movie could even pass as a decent film had it not been drawing from the most adrenaline fuelled source material ever conceived.
While this is true, my love for having pre-existing marvel heroes and villains in my marvel movies is not treated kindly. Yes, I recognised General Ross but who the hell is David Banner supposed to be. Halfway through the movie, I thought that he was Absorbing Man but then he became a massive lightning dude resembling Zzzax. Soon after that he becomes some sort of water being who might just be Hydro-Man. They need to make up their goddamn mind.
This entire movie feels completely pointless. It pretty much tarnishes the source material and has very few redeeming qualities. It would have been interesting to see some really classic Hulk villains like Abomination, A-bomb or even Red Hulk. If you go into this movie expecting action, you will be sorely disappointed. I really can’t recommend this movie to any one… it is just too embarrassing to anyone who is a fan of the Marvel universe.
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