Review of Hulk (2003) by Connor D — 09 Mar 2012

A bad effort at bringing the comic book green madman to the big screen. This movie was definitely intended to be taken seriously, but what a fail that was. There were so many things that were so dumb I didn't even laugh.

When Bruce Banner is explaining what he feels when he becomes the Hulk, he says, "My heart just goes boom... boom... ... boom." You think it sounds dumb in words? Just wait until you see him saying it.

In another scene, the Hulk is attacked by three genetically mutated dogs and when he kills them, they evaporated into green dust. How unrealistic can you get? In another scene, the Hulk causes an explosion and this guy who was near it jumped and yelled in the dumbest way.

Not only that, but it froze and then cut to the next scene. I simply can't take a movie like this seriously, and the problem is that it's meant to be. I do have to give credit to Nick Nolte for some pretty good acting in a few scenes.

And some of the action is pretty cool as well. Sadly, Eric Bana is not a good Hulk. Edward Norton is a lot better in the 2008 version. The film features comic book style editing, with two screens showing different angles of the same scene.

I get director Ang Lee wanted us to feel like it was the comic book, but it just seemed like a pointless filming tactic. A lot of people say the Hulk himself looked good, which I guess he did for a nearly ten year old movie.

Overall, this is a bad movie with an unnecessary filming style and some really dumb scenes which ruin it completely.