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‘The Incredible Hulk’ stirs more excitement than previous version |
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
He’s big, he’s green and he’s got a bit of an anger management problem. He’s the Hulk and he has returned once again to prove that the 2003 failure was a fluke.
The reinvented Incredible Hulk brings a lot more action and much better acting than its 2003 predecessor. It is safe to assume that director Louis Leterrier went into the project pretending as if the first never happened making the story line unchanged.
Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) has fled to the “City of God” neighborhood
in Brazil after a gamma ray experiment turns him into the Hulk, which
in turn, destroys his lab and most of the people in it.
In Brazil, Banner is studying ways to control his anger and his heart rate and working at a bottling factory.
Things go awry when Banner contaminates a bottle with his blood and the
bottle winds up in the states infecting an elderly man with his Hulk
“disease.” This leads General Ross (William Hurt) straight to Banner.
Banner is forced to return to the states in hope of finding a scientist friend who claims to know the cure to Banner’s problem.
The remainder of the film is a free for all of explosions and Hulk on
Hulk battles. While much more exciting than the original, the computer
generated Hulk and his nemesis still force the audience to realize that
there will never be a Hulk that doesn’t look like a cartoon character.
The acting faired much better this time around. Edward Norton can truly
take any character and turn it into something an audience wants to
watch. Liv Tyler is pretty much the same character as she plays in
every film, whiny, melancholy and desperately wanting to fix something.
William Hurt is pretty one-dimensional and leaves much to be desired of
the General.
While The Incredible Hulk is no comparison to the success of Iron Man,
it is now good enough to be put in the ranks with the other Marvel
comic character movies.
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