Rating: 
Summary: I think the people who made this were insane
Review: This thing is quite an accomplishment - it manages to be so incredibly stupid and yet at the same time, so incredibly boring. One would think that the stupidity alone would be enough to keep a person laughing through the whole thing, but no, edit in a few hours of people acting morose and you can suck the life out of anything. David Banner seems to be in a permanent state of semi-consciousness, wandering through scenes as if in a confused stupor. His girlfriend repeats "someone must help him" over and over, to whomever she's in a scene with. Cut, fade, crossfade, edit to the next scene - Humvees drive around - they're pictured from the left in the upper right frame, from the right in the lower left frame, helicopters fly in the other two frames. Nick Nolte unwinds some psycho spiel about god knows what. Then the CGI Hulk appears and is funnier than the CGI snake in Anaconda. I mean, laugh-out-loud hilarious. Cut, fade, crossfade, helicopters fly in multiple frames, people act morose, cut fade, Humvees drive through the desert, cut, fade, now it's too dark to see anything. Oh wait, here are some people acting morose again. Cut fade crossfade...
Rating: 
Summary: overlong and way too serious
Review: The Hulk is a bad movie. It has all the necessary elements to be good, but instead it goes awry in a number of ways. The special effects are good, but overused, the cast is effective, but campy. The story follows the original in a way, but doesn't realize that the material needs to be lighter in nature. In short, this is a misfire that results from everything being just a little off.David Banner (Nick Nolte) has a son, Bruce whom he injects with a chemical he is working on that is supposed to allow him to fix himself when hurt or regenerate limbs he loses. Later, he is fired from his job in the military, and sets off a nuclear explosion. His son is home and survives the blast. Later he is exposed to a large amount of gamma radiation and develops the ability to turn into the hulk when provoked to great anger. There's much to get upset about. His ex girlfriend (Jennifer Connoley) still works with him in the lab (he does the same thing his father used to do) Her father (Sam Elliott) was the man who fired David all those years ago. Now he wants to use the Hulk as a military weapon. Throw in Josh Lucas as a two fold jerk. He not only wants to date Connoley, but he wants to use the DNA of the Hulk to develop his own creature for his company. The CGI version of the Hulk is almost humorously campy. He leaps all over the place and destroys buildings like they're not even there. This would not be so bad if it were not so obvious that it is fake. I will give the creature this. It looks more like a mutant than the original series, which simply featured Lou Ferrigno with green paint. The problem comes from the fake look of the action. Also, director Ang Lee looks at this material all wrong. Instead of it being a fun, entertaining look at a fantasy hero, this film is sullen and serious. Nick Nolte's speech at the end is so over the top it's amazing. Lee's previous "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" could have been more serious, but ended up being light and amusing. This is awful. Compare it to SpiderMan and you'll see what I mean. Finally, the movie is way too long. This should have been 100 minutes tops, not 140. It takes us 45 minutes to meet the Hulk. Why show us a helicopter flying Bruce to the lab for 3-4 minutes? I'm serious. The helicopter just flies along. Why? At 100 minutes this would have been tight and watchable. As it is, you'll barely make it to the finish. The Hulk could have been really good. Hopefully the sequel (I'm sure there will be one) will understand the shortcomings of the original and get it right.
Rating: 
Summary: Incredible
Review: I'm not a fan of Hulk, the tv show was my worst childhood nightmare, specially the scream of Lou Ferrigno, but when I knew a few years ago about Ang Lee directing and Nick Nolte taking a role, couldn't resist to face the old monster and I found one of the best movie I seen in my life.
Beyond the superhero movie, this is a very dark drama, about how the pain of the past became in the inner monster who is killing us.The story is wonderfull, Eric Banna make great work as the Dr Banner, a deeply disturbed man who lives a real inner war to keep all his pain without killing himself or hurt anyone. It's not an easy to watch movie, need patience to pick up every symbol of Ang Lee, but it makes better every moment.
The only thing bad is the soundtrack, is very weak for a strong drama like this, it could be better but is so predictable.
Rating:
Summary: A massive clunker.
Review: Pirates of the Caribbean was the most disappointing film of summer 2003 because it promised more fun than it actually delivered. The Hulk comes in a close second because its pedigree (from the cast to director Ang Lee) would seemingly indicate we'd get a film that's far superior to the final cut of this horribly overlong clunker. Maybe the Hulk was never suited for big screen material, but it's more likely Ang Lee just mucked up the execution. He clearly wants to inject his films with the deeper meaning, to question and explore the very psyche of the film's protagonist, Bruce Banner (Eric Bana). Truth be told, I'm not partial to this approach, but I could grudgingly accept it if delivered and executed competently. It's not. From the dull performances to the pretentious tone, Hulk consistently does little more than make the viewer every bit as angry as the green beast himself, only because one was foolish enough to actually fork over some hard-earned cash to see the film. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the fact that Lee wants to put characters over action, an approach that has constantly appealed to me, but there's a catch here; not one single character is likeable and/or sympathetic. Bana is a decent actor, but he radiates zero screen presence or charisma as Banner, I neither felt nor cared for his supposed mental and physical anguish. As his ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Connelly is even less convincing, resorting to little more than shedding tears when the situation goes awry. Connelly is one of those actresses whose marked improvements over the years (she was an awful actress from the mid-80's to early 90's) has impressed me, but this is her worst performance in years. In other supporting roles, Josh Lucas is okay but perfunctorily one-dimensional as the villain, and Sam Elliot does his gruff thing yet again, and it's not nearly as amusing here as it was in We Were Soldiers (where much of it was played for laughs; he's deadly serious here). Nick Nolte is hilariously over-the-top as mad scientist Bruce Banner, it'd be amusing if it wasn't so earnest. The movie as a whole is about anger, that seething, boiling rage lurking under the surface just waiting for the catalyst that'll unleash its ugly face. There is, unfortunately, only so much a film of this sort can do to deal with such a topic, and it doesn't even maximize such potential during the action sequences. The Hulk (the big man himself) is a passable special effect, better than you'd expect, but not as good as you'd hope for, and while the green lug does get in a few pretty cool moments (leaping around the desert, for instance), he's utterly wasted in this movie's few paltry action sequences. There's a general rule of thumb of mine that any superhero action movie should pit our hero against stronger villains (a rule the recent X2 also broke). Not the case here, where most of Hulk's fighting is against the U.S. military. This is without mentioning that the Hulk not only has super strength and super agility, he's also practically invulnerable to harm because of a quick healing factor; a hero who virtually can't die? Bye-bye, suspense. The one scene where the Hulk does fight someone with superior powers to his own is set in the dark, and I could barely make anything out during this battle, which hardly lasts past a minute and is wholly anti-climactic compared to the slightly more engaging Hulk vs. the military confrontation. Danny Elfman's horrible score rounds out the rest of this lackluster picture. It's a rip-off of his own work in Spider-Man, which itself was a rip-off of his superior work in Batman. Lesson to Elfman: a score of this style won't work for every superhero. Ang Lee crafts the film with a "wink-wink"-style camerawork, splicing in lots of comic-book style scene transitions, reminding viewers they are indeed watching an adaptation of a popular comic book. Not only are the transitions themselves annoying, but they're a persistent reminder of how much more fun it would be to actually skim through an issue of the Hulk than to actually watch this film.
Rating:
Summary: The movie is good, the DVD stinks...
Review: Well, I am disapointed that Universal made this DVD in a very rushed way. The bonus features really stink and actually feature much the same footage over and over again. Not to mention cheap film trailers for other Universal films and TV shows that are better left forgotten. Now that Marvel and Universal have announced they are making a Hulk sequal, maybe Universal will re-release this movie close to the time Hulk 2 will be released, and actually give it a better DVD treatment in terms of both the movie and the bonus features. But as for people saying how bad this movie was supposed to be and comparing it with Batman and Robin, I say that they would not know the difference between a good movie and a cheap pair of shoes.
Rating:
Summary: Quite possibly the worst movie ever made
Review: Horrible...one of, if not the worst movie ever made. A complete waste of film and money. Two hours of my life I'll never get back, you coudn't pay me enough money to sit through this again.
Rating:
Summary: Come on you can do better than this
Review: OH My lord, where do I start. The stroy line just seemed stupid as hell and the action was very good. that's the only reason I even gave it a two out of five. It just was a slow ass movie, I'm sorry but it just was. Maybe when they make the second Hulk Movie their have people with sense to make it.
Rating: 
Summary: It was good
Review: I guess everyone who didn't like it was expecting just another good ol' monster mash flick. But then they don't know Ang Lee.
I thought it was a good movie enjoybable on many levels. The special effects were groundbreaking I don't care what anybody says. CGI hasn't looked so well done in a while. The Hulk really pushed the envelope.
For the escapist movie-goers this film probably was a disappointment. Everyone wanted a rollercoaster ride, but got a session with Carl Jung.
Rating:
Summary: It wasn't THAT bad...
Review: Okay, this is definately not the best movie ever. By a longshot. But, come on people! So what if the plot might have been a little dumb? So what if the Hulk didn't look too real? The point was...it was entertaining! Who cares? It's like a video game: just because a game doesn't have the best graphics, it doesn't mean it's a bad game. Give me a break. There's no way this movie deserves two stars. There was non-stop action. All the diologue was just meant to lead up to a fight scene, so it wasn't boring. I said the plot was a little dumb (at the end), but the rest of the movie was cleverly written, and wasn't a movie that had me falling asleep. I wouldn't buy it, but I wouldn't trash it. I would just rent it, and if you REALLY like it, buy it.
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Summary: Hulk vs. Jugernaut
Review: They should make a Hulk/X-Men movie where Hulk fights his most strongest oppoenent (besides superman) the unstoppable Jugernaut. Now that would be a dream movie. As for this DVD of the Hulk. It is a very good movie, and has great special effects of the fantastic Comanche helicopter. Soon to be discontinued in real life because of its high cost. Bye the way....I do think that Jugernaut would win against the Hulk.
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