The Incredible Hulk
June 15th 2008 07:44
So its been a while since I wrote a review on my little page here (and a long time since I actually sat down to watch a feature length film!) so here I am back to give you my opinion once again, kicking things off with the new Edward Norton flick The Incredible Hulk.
I am by no means a comic book fan apart from a small dilly into The Phantom about ten years ago. I'm not an anti-comic book film guy either, I just feel most of them aren't warranted to be released (The Spawn, Fantastic Four) due to overall lameness. The previous Hulk flick starring Eric Bana and directed by the most overrated director of all time, Ang Lee, was one of the worst films I've ever been privy to. When I heard a new one was announced I, like many of you I presume, merely wondered "why?". This changed when I heard two of the greatest if not coolest actors on screen, Edward Norton and Tim Roth, would be part of it. Could they save what looks like an otherwise terrible film premise? Read on.
The beginning credit sequence plays and it quickly illustrates to us how The Hulk was created - Banner was injected with the green muscles of god serum, under the watchful eye of his scientist girlfriend nontheless, and everything turned to shit. The only thing that really stood out from this is that William Hurt cannot act to save his life. Now, I'll admit I'm not very familiar with his work and he can only do as well as he is directed (essentially) but this was just cringeworthy. Similar efforts from him continue throughout the film although in his defense the script did not give him much room to show much emotion beyond angry and mean. Also, it may just be me but his moustache looked incredibly fake. At one point I thought someone was going to rip it off him and tell him to get the fuck out of the scene.
Tim Roth is in a similar position. Now I know he's capable of a great performance and like I said before, his role in this film was a big selling point for me. This was yet another disappointment - in some scenes I got the impression his direction was "Yeah do whatever" and it showed. Norton wasn't overly impressive either and I guess this reflects his refusal to do promotion for the film now.
The fight scenes are really impressive though and I was on the edge of my seat in excitement at the final fight between Hulk and the Abomination. The Abomination is one scary mother and everything he did was just brilliant. Throwing cars around and killing people has never been cooler. Its just too bad his role in the film was limited to the ending.
I guess it all comes down to what I feel is the fact that you just cannot make a good film out of The Hulk character. Said person gets angry and turns into a huge green pissed off building of a man. Ang Lee's effort was at best fucking hopeless and this film only betters it slightly. Wait till the DVD release unless you're a CGI whore, albeit even then only go if you have literally nothing else to do and are a fan of Norton.
I am by no means a comic book fan apart from a small dilly into The Phantom about ten years ago. I'm not an anti-comic book film guy either, I just feel most of them aren't warranted to be released (The Spawn, Fantastic Four) due to overall lameness. The previous Hulk flick starring Eric Bana and directed by the most overrated director of all time, Ang Lee, was one of the worst films I've ever been privy to. When I heard a new one was announced I, like many of you I presume, merely wondered "why?". This changed when I heard two of the greatest if not coolest actors on screen, Edward Norton and Tim Roth, would be part of it. Could they save what looks like an otherwise terrible film premise? Read on.
The beginning credit sequence plays and it quickly illustrates to us how The Hulk was created - Banner was injected with the green muscles of god serum, under the watchful eye of his scientist girlfriend nontheless, and everything turned to shit. The only thing that really stood out from this is that William Hurt cannot act to save his life. Now, I'll admit I'm not very familiar with his work and he can only do as well as he is directed (essentially) but this was just cringeworthy. Similar efforts from him continue throughout the film although in his defense the script did not give him much room to show much emotion beyond angry and mean. Also, it may just be me but his moustache looked incredibly fake. At one point I thought someone was going to rip it off him and tell him to get the fuck out of the scene.
Tim Roth is in a similar position. Now I know he's capable of a great performance and like I said before, his role in this film was a big selling point for me. This was yet another disappointment - in some scenes I got the impression his direction was "Yeah do whatever" and it showed. Norton wasn't overly impressive either and I guess this reflects his refusal to do promotion for the film now.
The fight scenes are really impressive though and I was on the edge of my seat in excitement at the final fight between Hulk and the Abomination. The Abomination is one scary mother and everything he did was just brilliant. Throwing cars around and killing people has never been cooler. Its just too bad his role in the film was limited to the ending.
I guess it all comes down to what I feel is the fact that you just cannot make a good film out of The Hulk character. Said person gets angry and turns into a huge green pissed off building of a man. Ang Lee's effort was at best fucking hopeless and this film only betters it slightly. Wait till the DVD release unless you're a CGI whore, albeit even then only go if you have literally nothing else to do and are a fan of Norton.
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