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Hulk represents the most involving superhero motion picture since "Superman" soared skywards in 1978. By taking its time to develop characters and situations, Hulk does what so many action/adventure movies fail to do -- allow us to really feel for the protagonists.
Read the full reviewHits on all cylinders -- a smart blend of acting, direction, editing, design, costumes and effects.
Read the full reviewAng Lee has boldly taken the broad outlines of a comic book story and transformed them to his own purposes; this is a comic book movie for people who wouldn't be caught dead at a comic book movie.
Read the full reviewLee's technique is impeccable, but he's chasing more inner demons than one creature feature can handle. No wonder the audience cheers when TV Hulk Lou Ferrigno shows up for a cameo. It's a reminder of a time when it was easier being green and a Hulk could just get pissed off and bust shit up.
Read the full reviewTakes the form of a wounded behemoth, battling to negotiate a compromise between a strong artistic vision and franchise expectations. It doesn't fully succeed on either count, but its integrity and substance stand out like an oasis in a field of cotton candy.
Read the full reviewThis impeccably crafted piece of megabuck fantasy storytelling aims to pull off the tricky feat of significantly reworking the superhero format while still providing the expected tentpole-type entertainment thrills for the international masses.
Read the full reviewHowever nifty, Lee's Cubist gambit fails to capture the graphic tension that makes great comic-book art jump off the page and great pop movies jump off the screen with pow, zap and wow!
Read the full reviewIn the end, we don't know what we're watching, an art-house superhero film or a computer-generated "King Kong." By trying to please both sensibilities, the filmmakers have pleased neither.
Read the full reviewTo answer your first question: like a cross between Shrek, the Frankenstein monster, and a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot.
Read the full reviewThere's a fine line between darkness and glumness, one that "Spider-Man" bounced off buildings to avoid. The Hulk lumbers across it.
Read the full reviewUnlike your average comic-book blockbuster, The Hulk isn't a bad cartoon. It's a bad modern Greek tragedy. It's a swing at the moon that looks (and smells) like green cheese.
Read the full reviewMore thoughtful and pleasing to the eye than any blockbuster in recent memory, but its epic length comes without an epic reward. It's a slow ride to the same old place, nonstop action, accelerating in scale, culminating in the smirking promise of a sequel.
Read the full reviewA comic-book superhero has seldom squandered so much screen time being conflicted about his heritage and destiny -- and I don't mean conflicted in a sexy, Wolverine-y, ''X-Men'' way, either; a big-budget comic-book adaptation has rarely felt so humorless and intellectually defensive about its own pulpy roots.
Read the full reviewThe movie is bulky and inarticulate, leaving behind a trail of wreckage and incoherence.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 54
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ok
"some parts of the movie were good, some were bad, some were confusin, some just plain dumb. but this was an average movie"
The Hulk
"I would say that The Hulk is a monster who we dont understand if he is a SuperHero or a SuperVillan in the city where the Movie is based on the people see him as a bad guy but The Hulk is a good guy he is just monster looking for help just like King Kong and Godzillaso The Hulk is like King Kong and Godzilla I give The Hulk Thumbs Up and the Score of 65 out of 100 and I hope you enjoy The Hulk"
green
"It was ok kinda slow.The girl in it was not hot at all"
hulk
"I like to know when tis movie well be part 2 since it not the end yet and please let me know when that new moive of 2 would start ! It great movie but i feel it not finish yet I like to see how it end ....."
boring
"For the strongest comic character ever created I expected to see alot of HULK SMASH!"
hulk movie sucks
"ang lee is the one of the most overrated directors of our time. this has almost nothing to do with The Hulk comic book, which kicked butt.nearly every performance sucks except Eric Bana, who was just wrong for the part.the Hulk as a character was okay--those CG guys are the only ones who ever read the comic. okay, the only ones who understood it. the poodle was awful tho'"
Not very good
"I didn't like this movie, because Hulk didn't really seem like a super hero, he didn't even save anyone from evil or whatever"
ya kno, ang, ya just messed up
"aight ang lee did a good job building the CG hulk and everything and that was all good and cool looking, but lee just did not deliver a good story. it was very slow and didn't snatch me into it as other superhero movies do. im disappointed and i think eric bana could have just directed it himself. maybe then his poor acting skills wouldn't have been used on Eric Banner and maybe a new actor could have played Banner!"
great movie
"grabted it can be boring from time to time, but cinematically, ang lee did a great job on it. movies are like an artists perspective. they dont neccassairliy have to entertain, bgut get the authors view across. this movie did that perfectly"
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