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Hulk (2003)

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 228
Fresh: 141 | Rotten: 87

While Ang Lee's ambitious film earns marks for style and an attempt at dramatic depth, there's ultimately too much talking and not enough smashing.

Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 19

While Ang Lee's ambitious film earns marks for style and an attempt at dramatic depth, there's ultimately too much talking and not enough smashing.

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Movie Info

Ang Lee directs the live-action feature film The Hulk, based on the Marvel comic book created by Stan Lee and illustrated by Jack Kirby. Emotionally stunted Dr. Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) is part of a research team at the University of California at Berkeley. Corporate hustler Glenn Talbot (Josh Lucas) takes notice of the lab and makes plans to take it over. Then Bruce accidentally gets hit by an experimental ray and grows into a huge beast, destroying the lab in the process. A creepy janitor who

PG-13, 2 hr. 18 min.

Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Ang Lee

Written By: Michael France, John Turman, James Schamus

In Theaters: Jun 20, 2003 Wide

On DVD: Oct 28, 2003

Box Office:$132.1M

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Eric Bana
Dr. Bruce Banner
Jennifer Connelly
Dr. Betty Ross
Sam Elliott
General "Thunderbolt" R...
Josh Lucas
Major Glenn Talbot
Nick Nolte
Dr. David Banner
Cara Buono
Edith Banner
Jesse Corti
Colonel
Reggie Davis
Security Guard
Lou Ferrigno
Head of Security
Michael Papajohn
Technician
John Prosky
Atheon Technician
Lou Richards
Pediatrician
Victor Rivers
Paramilitary
Geoffrey Scott
The President
Celia Weston
Mrs. Krensler
Stan Lee
Security Guard
Eric Ware
Soldier
Brooke Langton
Jennifer Sossman
Todd Tesen
Young Thaddeus Ross
Lorenzo Callender
Soldier
Daniella Kuhn
Edith's Friend
John Littlefield
Security NCO
Paul Kersey
Young David Banner
David Sutherland
Tank Commander
Kirk B.R. Woller
Comanche Pilot
Sasha Barrese
Alice
Daniel Dae Kim
Aide
Kevin Rankin
Harper
Mike Erwin
Teenage Bruce Banner
Craig Damon
Security Guard
Lyndon Karp
Davey
David Kronenberg
Bruce Banner as a Child
Michael Kronenberg
Bruce Banner as a Child
Rhiannon Leigh Wryn
Young Betty Ross
Paul H. Kim
Officer
Ricardo Aguilar
Boy's Father
Mark Atteberry
Technician
Eva Burkley
Technician
Todd Lee Coralli
Soldier
Amir Faraj
Boy
Jennifer Gotzon
Waitress
Rondda Holeman
Technician
Toni Kallen
Delivery Nurse
Johnny Kastl
Soldier
Louanne Kelley
Delivery Doctor
Sean Mahon
Comanche Pilot
John A. Maraffi
Technician
Randy Neville
F-22 Pilot
Regina McKee Redwing
National Security Advis...
David St. Pierre
Technician
Brett Thacher
Comanche Pilot
Boni Yanagisawa
Technician
Rob Swanson
Colonel

Critic Reviews for Hulk

All Critics (229) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (143) | Rotten (89) | DVD (36)

[An] enjoyable summer behemoth.

April 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

An interesting effort to give one of the staples of mass entertainment something extra in the way of insight and feeling.

July 10, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Observer

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Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

Big, dopey and crammed with special effects that take the breath away.

June 26, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Observer

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Rex Reed

New York Observer

Top Critic

Despite the profusion of computer-generated effects, which rousingly bring the green guy to life, I often felt, for better and for worse, that I was watching a comic-book movie reconceived as a piece of serious mythmaking.

June 22, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Magazine

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Peter Rainer

New York Magazine

Top Critic

Unlike your average comic-book blockbuster, The Hulk isn't a bad cartoon. It's a bad modern Greek tragedy.

June 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Slate

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David Edelstein

Slate

Top Critic

Are comic books art? Maybe, but this leaden, pretentious flick about Marvel Comics' big green id, from the overrated Ang Lee, is just schlock art for the NPR set.

June 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Salon.com

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Charles Taylor

Salon.com

Top Critic

Whatever problems it has as a story, at least Hulk tried, honestly and desperately, to push the comic book move into new places emotionally and stylistically.

May 6, 2012 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

The Hulk lacks personality; not a great movie.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

The best comic book adaptation I've seen so far with an excellent cast and well directed piece of art...

May 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

A turgid, CGI-Frankenstein reject

August 26, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

The spectacular special effects and Lee's use of split screens provide some relief in a nonetheless tedious tale in which Nick Nolte (looking much like his recent mug shot) provides several unintentional laughs as Banner's father.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review

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Mark Halverson

Sacramento News & Review

The film almost matches the inner conflict of its titular character, intermittently bogged down even as it soars to occasionally transcendent heights.

June 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Projection Booth

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Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

Lee and Schamus try on film genres like The Silence of the Lambs' Buffalo Bill tries on human skin.

June 12, 2008 Full Review Source: UGO

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Keith Uhlich

UGO

The only Ang Lee film where he shows even a modicum of originality in his direction or any real personality or interesting visual flair.

January 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Derek Smith

Apollo Guide

What a strange and fascinating contraption Hulk is.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

The way Lee orchestrates the film is closer to painting than directing. At times, it feels as though a graphic novel is being laid out on screen.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound

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Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

A talented director wasted on a poorly plotted and weakly acted film. Not even the visual effects are salvagable

August 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy

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Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

Nice as it would be to report that Ang and his co-writer/producer James Schamus had regenerated the summer blockbuster, we gotta poop the party.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Derek Adams

Time Out

The Hulk, like its lead character, is just too big.

September 30, 2005 Full Review Source: Three Movie Buffs

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Scott Nash

Three Movie Buffs

It still looks and feels like a superhero movie, even if it didn't turn out exactly the way we wanted it to.

July 5, 2005 Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com

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Jason Zingale

Bullz-Eye.com

Audiences expecting to turn off their brains and sit back for another blast of mere eye candy may stagger out of this 138-minute epic wondering what hit them.

January 15, 2005 Comment (1)

Jeffrey Overstreet

Looking Closer

There are aggressive action scenes, but they contain blatant flaws that become more irritating on multiple viewings, a real no-no if that's all it's got going for it.

November 6, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie City News

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Douglas Pratt

Movie City News

I cannot recall seeing a tank being lobbed at a copter with such finesse.

October 14, 2004 Full Review | Comment

Steve Crum

Kansas City Kansan Source: Kansas City Kansan

Hulk se distingue de la masse par son caract�re humain et par les th�mes qu'il aborde.

October 7, 2004 Comment

Louis-J�r�me Cloutier

Panorama

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Audience Reviews for Hulk

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"Hulk" is one of those mixed bag movies that gets some things right, but more things wrong. I saw this in the theater(came out in 2003) and was very underwhelmed. It's since been remade(which was much better) and this is essentially an irrelevant movie. "Hulk" is the origin story of scientist Bruce Banner(Eric Bana)

May 1, 2012

Everett Johnson

Super Reviewer

Ang Lee has made a very thoughtful film, he gives up the typical superhero story elements which include mindless repetitiveness of blowing things up and smashing things for no reason and thinks to himself "what is it that drives Bruce Banner insane? What's the cause of the feelings he feels?" and so he makes a drama

November 1, 2011

Directors Cat

Super Reviewer

Hulk Quotes

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1. Tank Commander: Driver stop, driver stop!
2. Dr. Bruce Banner: Turn right, turn right!
– Submitted by Dmitry V (39 days ago)
1. Tank Commander: Driver stop, driver stop!
– Submitted by Dmitry V (39 days ago)
1. Dr. David Banner: Sleep dear Bruce and forget forever struggle no more and give me all of your power.
2. Dr. Bruce Banner: You think you can live with it then take it.
3. Dr. Bruce Banner: TAKE IT ALL!
– Submitted by Patryk G (3 months ago)
1. Dr. David Banner: That's right keep fighting, the more you fight the more of you I take.
– Submitted by Patryk G (3 months ago)

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