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Product Description: The larger-than-life Marvel Super Hero the Hulk explodes onto the big screen! After a freak lab accident unleashes a genetically enhanced, impossibly strong creature, a terrified world must marshal its forces to stop a being with abilities beyond imagination.

Amazon.com: When the Hulk gets angry, his movie gets good, so you wish he'd get angry more often. Accepting this challenge after the triumphant Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, director Ang Lee has created an ambitious film, based on the Marvel comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, that succeeds as a cautionary tale about mad science and traumatized children coping with legacies of pain. That's the Hulk's problem: After accidental exposure to gamma radiation, scientist Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) turns into the huge, green, and indestructible Hulk when provoked, and repressed childhood memories fuel his fury. Hobbled by the obligatory "origin story" (to acquaint neophytes with the character's Jekyll-and-Hyde-ish fate), there's room for little else in a sluggish film that struggles to reconcile Lee's stylistic flair (evident in his visual interpretation of comic-book technique) with the razzle-dazzle of a megabudget franchise. What's good is good (Jennifer Connelly essentially echoes her role from A Beautiful Mind, and Nick Nolte is righteously tormented as Banner's father), but the movie's schizoid intentions remain largely unclear. --Jeff Shannon

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SO UNDERRATED! January 6, 2009
Hulk is a great film. Its masterfully directed and the effects are mind blowing. Hulk is so much more than a mindless monster and this film shows us that. I consider this one of the best superhero movies ever made right along with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

Not As Horrible As So Many Claim January 2, 2009
Come on people it's a huge green dude...What were you expecting? Spidey? Didn't think so. Hulk is that character in comics that was never truly identified to be either a hero or a villain. He is both in my opinion. He is his own enemy, Banner has to fight with his inner self (literally) the struggles between Hulk and Bruce Banner are as plausible as that of Kent and Superman, or Wayne and Batman. The only problem is how the story is adapted.

In this first adaptation, which in fact isn't that loyal to the comic book origins; begins the story of tormented scientist Bruce Banner and his search for a new means to heal and cure people in a way never imagined. His attempts fail after he is exposed to gamma rays. This of course unleashes what is already inside of Banner. Now there are many details in the movie that I'm not gona ruin, for that you would have to see the movie. The issue with why people dislike the movie is because it takes almost 45 min of the movie to finally see Hulk.

The movie dwells to long in the past of Banner, now I agree origin is good but in a balanced manner. The effects are amazing with out a doubt...But the storyline a times drags to long. Not to mention the final fight scene this is too dark and poorly conceived. Conclusion, rent it before you buy it. Only buy it if you are a fan of Hulk or comics.

MY PERSONAL RATING: 3 ½ OUT OF 5

WATCH IT...IF YOU WANT TO REGRET IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE December 28, 2008
Why?
Why Oh ME????
WHY DID WE HAVE TO PICK THIS!
The opening credits were longer than it took to make myself a full dinner for my party of 14 (including my monkey, Robin, and terrier, Leanne). But that is besides the point, i guess...well, not really. Well, now that it's 2008, just watch the new one. They obviously re-did it for a reason. Why else would they make the same movie twice in ONE decade? Mhmm...exactly. So, EDWARD NORTON is so FOIIIINE (Hot, sexy, good-looking in modern pop-culture lingo). So go watch the remake [2008] cause when i watched this version, my face turned the color of the HULK...hahahaha. Or if you dont want to ever associate yourself with the HULK again, watch the Dark Knight or listen to a Leona Lewis CD/Bleeding Love/Better In Time/I Will Be/Run.
Wait..hold on...alert the media...WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT THIS PAGE!!!! THE NEW MOVIE IS ALREADY OUT on dvd, hidef, blu ray, selected VHS, so please find your AMAZON search box and type in "The Incredible Hulk (2008)!" You won't be sorry...or maybe you will, I have yet to catch that one!
<3 Mrs. Priestly

Not As Bad As People Say November 15, 2008
I thought the cast for this film was really good. I also liked how the director shot certain parts of the movie as if you were reading a comic book. Despite the positive elements, there were two main things that dragged it down. They were the wierd-looking super dogs, and the disappointing water creature that the father becomes at the end. The special effects were also lacking throughout. This one is decent, but the newer Hulk movie is far superior.

Run for your life! (1 of 2 Found this Helpful) November 8, 2008
Hulk is the biggest disaster of 2003. Not sure why director Ang Lee would take this movie on, thank god for Brokeback Mountain or I would have thought he was losing his mind. Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly are talented actors but they look so uncomfortable here, it's painful to watch. Haven't seen the new Hulk, I heard it's better than this one. I just hated this film, too long and boring.

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