Grade:  B

Director:  Ang Lee		Released:  June 2003
Writer:  James Schamus, John Turman		MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Players:  Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott		Running time:  138 minutes

Ratings System

The presentation of Hulk is brilliant.  It's a beautiful picture to watch, and I love the editing techniques used.  The split panel screens, the transitions, all fantastic.  Wish I could say the same about the story.

The story isn't horrible, but comic book origin stories don't work as well in movies as they do in comic books.  With a comic, you get the next issue every month, with a movie it can take years (if at all) to see the next chapter.  When you tell only a character's origin in a movie, it's like, okay, what's next?  Imagine if Superman had ended after his origin story was done, around the time he saves Lois from falling out of the helicopter.  It's incomplete, it's an introduction only, with little substance.  That's what Hulk is.

As for the Hulk himself, at times he looks absolutely real, at other times absolutely fake.  And I could have lived without the Hulk dogs.  At one point during the Hulk dogs fight, it becomes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Hulk as the action moves up into the trees (okay, lame joke, I know).

My hands down favorite scene is when Hulk battles the helicopters in the desert.  Man, I love that sequence.  Overall, it's a good movie, pretty smart most of the time.

- crocoPuffs