The
Incredible Hulk is the second entry in Marvel´s Cinematic Universe, released
the same summer Iron Man, it never got the same amount of financial success.
The film opens with an opening credits that shows the origin of the hulk and
giving us his backstory before jumping five years to where Banner is now hiding
out in Brazil. He finds someone who might be able to cure his condition, but he
has to go back into the US, where he his wanted by the military. Emil Blonsky,
played by Eli Roth, a British-Russian soldier working for the Americans becomes
obsessed with the Hulk and does anything to catch him or kill him.
Now first
of all not having seen any previous Hulk film and not knowing the details of
his origin I was completely lost and I found the fact that they told his origin
in five minutes with pictures was a bad idea. It felt like I was watching a
sequel without having seen the original. It is also the problem that we never
really get a proper introduction to Dr Banner and were quickly thrown into a big
action scene, but that’s like one of the first things that happen and we really
don’t care for him because he has absolutely no personality. Here we also get
introduced to Emil Blonsky who in my opinion had much more character then
Banner. Now that’s not to say I don’t think Edward Norton does a good job in
his role, the problem is that he is written as one of the most forgettable
protagonists ever. His role has absolutely nothing to him and he is just kind
of there. As for Emil Blonsky, I thought he was pretty awesome and Eli Roth is
very good, however when he turns into the Abomination, it is one of the
silliest things I have ever seen. I would have bought him if he was just a
beast, but he is running around smiling and laughing and trying to piss the
hulk of and it was incredibly silly.
The acting
was in general pretty good with two big exceptions. William Hurt as the general
chasing Banner was pretty bad in my opinion, it just seemed like he really
didn’t care and just wanted to get out of there. It was like he decided just to
not take it seriously since it was a comic book movie. Another example is “Mr
Blue” played by Tim Blake Nelson, who was just incredibly over the top and very
annoying to watch.
There are
three major action sequences in the film, the first one being the films opening
action sequence, which felt a bit too much like a bad version of Jason Bourne
with chases on the rooftops. What was the most silly part about this was that
when he eventually turned into the Hulk he was just in the shadows and we
didn’t get to see what he looked like, however this just seemed pointless,
because 99% of people seeing the film already know what he looks like and so it
really had no effect. Also somehow he overnight ran from Brazil to Guatemala…
because that’s not far at all. The second action scene was probably my
favourite, back in the US the military had a massive attack on the hulk and
there was a well done fight between Eli Roth and the hulk. However one thing
took me out of this sequence as well, the CGI. The CGI in this movie is
horribly cheesy looking and nothing looks like it would exist in real life and
just wasn’t believable. As for the hulk he looked reasonably real, but he still
looked silly and I have seen much better looking hulks. Then there was the
final battle, which was absolutely horrible, a completely ridiculous CGI fest
where I really had hard time caring who won, though by the end I did start
cheering for the hulk, mostly because of how stupid the abomination was. My
biggest problem with the climactic battle is (spoiler) they said Banner was
cured and they showed him not being able to hulk, but then all of a sudden a
jumped off a helicopter and crashed into the ground and became the hulk without
any explanation to as why he all of a sudden wasn’t cured after all.
The worst
part of the film would have to be the directing and I hate to point to someone
out like this, but this was awfully overproduced. Everything from the music to
the look of the film was immensely overproduced and there was no way for the
viewers to put themselves into the movie when the director was trying way too
hard to make it epic. For example, it started raining all of a sudden every
time there was some romantic going on and it was that really fake looking movie
rain that just goes straight down and you could tell it isn’t raining one block
away. Also it seemed like it was the same music playing all the way through
every action sequence and it got so repetitive.
I’m not
saying you can’t have a good time with this film (most people seem to like it),
but I thought it had an awfully cheesy and empty script with a messy story. There
was little to no character and really nobody to care about. The story was for
the most part uninteresting and I felt it would have been much more interesting
to see the story showed in the first five minutes (but they apparently showed
that in the hulk movie from five years earlier). The movie was way too
overproduced and though the action was somewhat entertaining, it was hard to
get past the bad CGI (and Iron Man which came out the same year had very good
CGI). It has certain good parts, but for the most part I was pretty bored and
rolling my eyes and just unable to enjoy the film.
1.5/5
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