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The Incredible Hulk [2008]
from Universal Pictures UK
starring Tim Roth, Liv Tyler, William Hurt, Edward Norton
directed by Louis Leterrier

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

A more accessible and less heavy-handed movie than Ang Lee's 2003 Hulk, Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk is a purely popcorn love affair with Marvel's raging, green superhero, as well as the old television series starring Bill Bixby as Dr. David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the beast within him. Edward Norton takes up where Eric Bana left off in Lee's version, playing Bruce (that's the character's original name) Banner, a haunted scientist always on the move. Trying to eliminate the effects of a military experiment that turns him into the Hulk whenever his emotions get the better of him, Banner is hiding out in Brazil at the film's beginning. Working in a bottling plant and communicating via email with an unidentified professor who thinks he can help, Banner goes postal when General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross and a small army turn up to grab him. Intent on developing whatever causes Banner's metamorphoses into a weapon, Ross brings along a quietly deranged soldier named Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth), who wants Ross to turn him into a supersoldier who can take on the Hulk. The adventure spreads to the U.S., where Banner hooks up with his old lover (and Ross' daughter), Betty (Liv Tyler), and where the Hulk takes on several armed assaults, including one in a pretty unusual location: a college campus. The film's action is impressive, though the computer-generated creature is disappointingly cartoonish, and a second monster turning up late in the movie looks even cheesier. Norton is largely wasted in the film--he's essentially a bridge between sequences where he disappears and the Hulk rampages around. As good an actor as he is, Norton doesn't have the charisma here to carry those scenes in which one waits impatiently for the real show to begin. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Dumbed-down generic action movie
  With the two modern entries in the Hulk franchise viewers will largely fall into 3 categories - 1) people who prefer this Ed Norton vehicle to Ang Lee's 2003 Hulk because the latter was "too arty" whereas this is more of an action movie; 2) people who prefer the Ed Norton/Louis Leterrier project because it is closer in style to the 1970s Lou Ferrigno TV series; 3) people who prefer the Ang Lee experiment because it drew its influence more from the paper source material and generally felt like a more-rounded... more info

• If You like superheroes's movies is a good film
  Better than Ang Lee version, based on a very good cast (expecially Roth as the villain, and Tyler - Bellucci-like) with Norton not at the same level "matching with the character" of Bana. Good CG special effects, a good plot. Only the possible mixing in a sequel with Iron Man (by the last scene with Downey Jr) is a phantom menace ....

• What was the point of the original Hulk movie?
  Let me state straight out that me and my missus like the original The Hulk movie. No, the cgi isn't wonderful and yes, it is a bit talky but it is still, essentially a good popcorn movie. The Incredible Hulk, however, is boring and so cliche-ridden that we almost turned off after half an hour (We couldn't even get our 15 year old to watch it because of the negative reviews his friends had given the film). The director obviously plays on his XBox too much and the film is, as with AVP, etc, etc basically a... more info

• YEP!!
  Wow!!! Much better then the hulk. I was excited to see Ed Norton to play Bruce and he was A ****** Great storyline and left open for a Ironman vs Hulk movie which would be ace. The only thing I didn't like was there wasn't alot of the actual hulk in the film but apart from that I give this bad boy 5 ************ all the way.

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