THE INCREDIBLE HULK REVIEW… incredible comeback
For more ways in one this movie lives up to its name. Its incredible that only a few years ago Eric Bana created a movie on the same character.. and yet this is no sequel. It is even more incredible that the director has ignored the previous films and opted to produce a new vision of the story. For skeptics, the problems of the first movie were easily rectified in less than half an hour into the new Hulk. There is plenty of action throughout this new story and plenty of seeing the character develop and more importantly… transform. Edward Norton, whilst needing little effort in his role, does a great job and the ruthless Tim Rothis a great cast as the villain ‘Abomination’. Liv Tyler is cruising through her role with her face and any decent looking girl could have played it. The story is simple. The army wants Bruce Banner as a weapon…. and he resists. The director opted for simple solutions and effectually quells all negative slander towards this release. A great superhero action movie needs plenty of action… and on this count it delivers. The battle sequences are well constructed with some great moments. The menacing Roths relentless determination outshines the timid nature of Norton and his beatings in the earlier scenes seemed to be the movies highlights. Whilst the movie feels relatively short there it completes its task of completely eradicating our memories from the horror that was the previous movie.
There are some drawbacks to this movie. It doesn’t really stand out amongst the recent hero movies and there is no particular reason to see this movie unless; you hated the first one with all your heart that you cannot bear to live life seen only a ‘bad’ hulk movie, or there is no action movie better at the time. Problem is that this movie comes not long after IRON MAN, which if you have seen it, is possibly the best hero movie to come out in recent years. Its not a terrible film but its a fad film which will be easily dissolved amongst the others of its genre. With many criticisms surrounding the film it somehow seems to rise above it all and ’smash’ (pun maybe intended) its predecessor. There are some really satisfying moments in this film and norton has successfully managed to turn a dweeb into a hulk of a man.
THE GOOD
- More of Hulk
- More action
- Better story and faster paced
- Riveting fight scenes
- Excellent Villain in the form of Tim Roth
- Hulk still looks slightly fake and nothing like edward norton in the facial features
- For all the action it is still strangely average
- Does the boyfriend of Liv Tylers character give up his woman way too easily?
7.5 / 10
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