Product Description: After an experiment in his lab goes wrong, geneticist Bruce Banner begins to turn into a large green creature whenever he is under emotional stress. Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure Rating: PG13 Release Date: 31-MAY-2005 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: When the Hulk gets angry, his movie gets good, so you wish he'd get angry more often. Accepting this challenge after the triumphant Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, director Ang Lee has created an ambitious film, based on the Marvel comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, that succeeds as a cautionary tale about mad science and traumatized children coping with legacies of pain. That's the Hulk's problem: After accidental exposure to gamma radiation, scientist Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) turns into the huge, green, and indestructible Hulk when provoked, and repressed childhood memories fuel his fury. Hobbled by the obligatory "origin story" (to acquaint neophytes with the character's Jekyll-and-Hyde-ish fate), there's room for little else in a sluggish film that struggles to reconcile Lee's stylistic flair (evident in his visual interpretation of comic-book technique) with the razzle-dazzle of a megabudget franchise. What's good is good (Jennifer Connelly essentially echoes her role from A Beautiful Mind, and Nick Nolte is righteously tormented as Banner's father), but the movie's schizoid intentions remain largely unclear. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - He's huge!!!
Just wanna be like him... But not really like him... Just as strong as him... But not as green as him... I wanna be as nice as him but not a freak as him when is mad...
Rating: - Not your typical comic book action flick
I suppose, had I watched this DVD thinking I was going to view the typical American action flick I would have been disappointed. I was told by everyone I know who saw it that I would hate it (I love action flicks). I'm glad I didn't listen, I would have missed a near masterpiece. Not an action masterpiece but definitely a film masterpiece.
This film definitely isn't packed with the action of most Marvel films, instead it is more like an actual comic book and it would be hard for me ... Read More
Rating: - They butchered the Hulk
The Incredible Hulk has been one of my favorite Marvel Super Heros, since the 1960's.
Yes, I lost track of him over the past few decades when I gave up comics in favor of computers. But I still love the character I remember.
I even liked the Incredible Hulk TV show of the 1980's. Hulk wasn't as powerful as he was in the comics, but he was more believable. Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno helped tremendously in that regard.
But this movie stank like rotten eggs on ... Read More
Rating: - Best Mavel Hero Film Made!
I'm not sure what's happened to people's standards these days, but apparently, they've droped, drastically. Because while the recently released "do-over" of "The Incredible Hulk" won audiences over and scored big box office success and praise from viewers, this film, the first attempt at bringing the Marvel super hero to the big screen, from 2003, was lambasted and rejected, both by critics and movie goers alike. Sadly, it speaks to the impatience and unwillingness to think on the part of American ... Read More
Rating: - A Monster is Born
The Good Things
*A few good special effects and action scenes.
*Some pieces of strong, interesting imagery.
*Despite being convoluted and slow, some of the drama and dialogue is interesting and thought-provoking. The characters are deep, when you stop and really look at them.
*The style (even though very heavily saturated with strange transitions) does a good job at giving the film a comic-book look.
*The actors are not bad.