Hulk (2003)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 229
Fresh: 141 | Rotten: 88
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: 46
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 22
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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Average Rating: 2.5/5
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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
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Cast
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Eric Bana
Dr. Bruce Banner -
Jennifer Connelly
Dr. Betty Ross -
Sam Elliott
General "Thunderbolt... -
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 Ch... -
Michael Kronenberg
Bruce Banner as a Ch... -
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 Ad... -
David St. Pierre
Technician -
Brett Thacher
Comanche Pilot -
Boni Yanagisawa
Technician -
Rob Swanson
Colonel
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All Critics (229) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (141) | Rotten (88) | DVD (36)
[An] enjoyable summer behemoth.
Top CriticNice 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.
An interesting effort to give one of the staples of mass entertainment something extra in the way of insight and feeling.
Big, dopey and crammed with special effects that take the breath away.
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.
Unlike your average comic-book blockbuster, The Hulk isn't a bad cartoon. It's a bad modern Greek tragedy.
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.
The Hulk lacks personality; not a great movie.
The best comic book adaptation I've seen so far with an excellent cast and top notch special effects...
A turgid, CGI-Frankenstein reject
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.
The film almost matches the inner conflict of its titular character, intermittently bogged down even as it soars to seemingly impossible heights.
Lee and Schamus try on film genres like The Silence of the Lambs' Buffalo Bill tries on human skin.
The only Ang Lee film where he shows even a modicum of originality in his direction or any real personality or interesting visual flair.
What a strange and fascinating contraption Hulk is.
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.
A talented director wasted on a poorly plotted and weakly acted film. Not even the visual effects are salvagable
The Hulk, like its lead character, is just too big.
It still looks and feels like a superhero movie, even if it didn't turn out exactly the way we wanted it to.
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.
I cannot recall seeing a tank being lobbed at a copter with such finesse.
Hulk se distingue de la masse par son caractère humain et par les thèmes qu'il aborde.
Rent it, fast forward through the first forty minutes, and enjoy the rest. Well, except the last ten minutes... okay, maybe give it a miss.
It is not a must-see in my book, but at least it has a story... and that's more than a lot of this year's big budget effects flicks can say.
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Movies Like Hulk
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- F-22 Pilot: I think i can come back around for a gun attack.
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- Dr. Bruce Banner: I should have killed you.
- Dr. David Banner: And i should have killed you.
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- Comanche Pilot: Tango One. Tango Three. I have contact. Holy shit! He's got my missile! Mayday! Mayday!
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- Major Glenn Talbot: So long, big boy.
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- Dr. Bruce Banner: Stop it!
- Dr. David Banner: Stop what!? Stop what!?
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- Tank Commander: Driver, stop. Driver, stop. Gunner, traverse left! Traverse left!
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| Re: Hulk Haters | 32 days ago | 0 |
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