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[An] enjoyable summer behemoth.
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.
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.
The Hulk lacks personality; not a great movie.
The best comic book adaptation I've seen so far with an excellent cast and well directed piece of art...
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 occasionally transcendent 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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