The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 218
Fresh: 146 | Rotten: 72
The Incredible Hulk provides the action and excitement to please comic book fans and re-ignite this fledgling franchise.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 18
The Incredible Hulk provides the action and excitement to please comic book fans and re-ignite this fledgling franchise.
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Mild-mannered scientist Bruce Banner has been traveling the globe in search of the antidote that will allow him to break free from his primal alter ego, but both the warmongers who long to exploit him for their own gain and a horrific creature known as The Abomination are determined to stop him from achieving his noble goal in Transporter 2 director Louis Leterrier's take on the classic Marvel Comics superhero tale. For years, Bruce (Edward Norton) has been living in the shadows, pursued by the
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Liv Tyler
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Tim Roth
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William Hurt
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Ty Burrell
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Christina Cabot
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The climax is a bit of a yawn, but most of what precedes it is vigorous and sharp.
A more satisfactory adaptation of the spirit of Stan Lee's Marvel character.
It won't change your life but you'll walk away smiling.
Rather than go to the trouble of crafting a dramatically satisfying conclusion, The Incredible Hulk" blows the audience off and takes the air out of its previous solid work by ending with what is essentially a shameless trailer for the next Marvel movie.
In close-up the Hulk is more cartoonish than scary, but when he's ripping armed vehicles to shreds? Kewl.
The sheer craft directors such as Leterrier lavish on them is awesome to me. I can't imagine how they orchestrate all the little pieces of film they require to build their big set pieces... [But] Why do they bother?
It's disposable fun, best summed up by Banner himself when asked how he feels during his transformation: "There's just too much noise... it's difficult to remember anything at all."
A very standard summer actioner that delivers reasonably well, if straight down the middle, on audience expectations.
Norton makes for a wiry, curious Bruce Banner. But you can tell from the film's tedium-inducing smackdowns that a different philosophy prevailed: the artificial Zen of video-game playing.
An impressive blockbuster that does exactly what it says.
Bloodier action than other comic book adventures.
Hulk not smash. Hulk building block. Hulk make franchise.
What's with the pants? How is it that when a guy with a 28-inch waist blows up to the size of a Cadillac Escalade, the pants remain intact?
About halfway through The Incredible Hulk, Ed Norton (Bruce Banner) gets his hair cut. Hair is not the only thing that winds up on the cutting room floor.
Ed Norton is incredible as the Hulk.
I read the production notes of this film back when it was being released this summer, and much of that information is contained in the special features.
The Commentary and Deleted Scenes make this vivid color transfer a finely produced DVD.
What Hulk smash most? Hulk smash all hope of interesting time in cinema.
The film runs much more smoothly than Lee's arguably overstuffed take on the material, but it also cuts out anything that isn't purely surface.
There's not an excess of exposition, and the pricey CGI Hulk at his disposal is more angrily expressive than the mute one employed by Lee.
Audience Reviews for The Incredible Hulk
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- Betty Ross: Subway's probably quickest.
- Bruce Banner/The Hulk: Me in a metal tube in the most aggressive city in the world?
- Betty Ross: You're right. Let's get a cab.
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- Emil Blonsky: You don't deserve this power. Now watch her die!
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- Bruce Banner/The Hulk: You know? I know some techniques you can use for the umm...
- Betty Ross: Zip it!
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- Emil Blonsky: Is that all you got?
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- Major Kathleen Sparr: How are you feeling, man?
- Emil Blonsky: Like a monster.
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- Bruce Banner/The Hulk: Urrgh!
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Latest News on The Incredible Hulk
February 4, 2013:
Latest Marvel Rumors Suggest a Hulk-Centric "Phase Three"How the big green guy's recent comic book adventures could figure into "Avengers 2" and beyond.
September 24, 2012:
Marvel Mulling More Hulk MoviesBut not until after "Avengers 2."
April 30, 2012:
Is Marvel Planning Another Hulk Movie After All?Rumor has it the big green guy could get another shot at big-screen stardom as soon as 2015.
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Foreign Titles
- Der unglaubliche Hulk (DE)
- L'Incroyable Hulk (FR)










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