We never see Hulk as our dream superhero. Green, filthy and ugly. Come on!
And before u knew, we already sent our ‘mak-aji’ to cast a spell so that it will tank upon screening. It works nok!
Rumours that star and co-writer Edward Norton threw a massive Hulk sulk during the editing process were hardly promising. But if the 2003 effort from Ang ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Lee was criticised for being overly-introspective, this bog-standard comic book blockbuster from The Transporter director Louis Leterrier at least hits the ground running.
The plot sees Bruce Banner (flavour-free Norton) hiding out in Brazil, desperately seeking a way to cure the gamma radiation poison that famously mutates him from a terminally dull scientist into a really violent Brussel sprout. It’s barely 20 minutes before Norton ‘hulks out’; there’s a pulse-pounding chase through the favelas as he is pursued by evil dudes at the US military (William Hurt and Tim Roth).
To be fair, Bruce Banner is one of Marvel’s least interesting creations: as a monster he’s less tortured than toddler. But the TV series at least imbued Hulk with a gentle giant appeal. Here there’s no King Kong-like humanity to touch beneath those empty CGI eyes. Incredible? Um, hardly.
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