Album Description: The Incredible Hulk (2008) kicks off an all-new, explosive and action-packed epic of one of the most popular Super Heroes of all time. In this new beginning, scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk. Living in the shadows - cut off from a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross (Liv Tyler) - Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt), and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power.
Amazon.com: A more accessible and less heavy-handed movie than Ang Lee's 2003 HulkLouis 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
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Rating : - Great movie all around Wow. You know, with the recent run of superhero movies, I've yet to see anything that didn't really impress me. Iron Man was amazing, Spider-man rocked, the Dark Knight was about as epic as they come, and the Incredible Hulk?
Was awesome. And I do mean that in the classic sense of the word. It inspired awe. Edward Norton's performance as Bruce Banner was excellent, and filled with the subtlety that the role needs. His "acting" as the Hulk was superb, too, bringing a lot of life and humanity to a basically inhuman character. The scene with the Hulk and Betty in the cave was very good - you see him not as a monster or a hero, but more like a very huge child.
Tim Roth plays an excellent villain. You find yourself really drawn in by his character and even though he's pretty much purely evil, you can empathize with him - which makes his transformation into the Abomination all the more frightening.
The only thing I didn't really like about the movie was Liv Tyler. Her acting was remarkably flat for almost all of the scenes. The only time she shows some life is when she's screaming at the cab driver. The rest of the time she's very quiet and subdued, and she's speaking her lines only just above a whisper. While that works well for an ethereal elf, it doesn't suit a human woman who can't even get some passion into a line like "Don't ever speak to me as your daughter again." That's a pretty strong thing to say to your father, but Liv mutters it and it killed the drama for me.
Overall though, good acting, amazing special effects, a great story, and fantastically choreographed fight scenes. This movie is definitely worth spending shelling out the money for.
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