Rating: 
Summary: I expected worse...
Review: I gave it 2 stars (and that's a lot!) because it didn't turned out as bad as I expected. But I must say that there were a lot of stuff that bothered me and I will start mentioning;
Ok. I know its a comic-book-related-movie, but what's with the transitions?! They bothered me a lot!, some looked cool, others looked like a multiple-channel -tv screen and I didn't knew were to look at first.
The movie was too ... long! Some of the extra 5 or even 10 minutes were wasted on scenery.
The CGI looked ok as long as he stood in the darkness... It was okay if you wanted to created a play-do (plasticine) creature... And it looked even terrible when it was moving! ... The face was alright though. But it will never NEVER be close to the Matrix, (and thankgoodness no one dared to compare it: not even close to Lord of the Rings). The movie just took too long and the theme was not that complicated. The Matrix and other movies compared to that nature have a theme far more complicated and important than the action-packed scenes that everyone seems to talk about. The movie goes far beyond than that and it is an absurdity to even be compared with Hulk.Last, on a lighter side, I think Jennifer Connelly really stood up nicely. She acted (and so did the other actors) very nice compared to it all. That is my review... The only reason I spent money on this movie (ON the theater) was just to see if there was still any hope left. At least they eliminated the pinky shorts Hulk was going to wear... THANK GOD!.... Overall, I would have waited for the movie on HBO. Oh! And the original series were A LOT better, they proved that you don't always have to rely on CGI to get some cool stuff. Prostetics and miniatures (still to today) do the most amazing tricks.
Rating: 
Summary: HULK SMASH? ... No, ... HULK STINK
Review: I have been a fan of the Hulk my entire life. I collected the comics as a kid and grew up addicted to the classic series where Bill Bixby transformed into a green Lou Ferigno. When I went to see SPIDER-MAN and saw the teaser for HULK, I was esstatic. For a year and a half now I've waited eagerly to see this movie.
What an incredible let-down.
I don't know which got more numb, my [bottom] or my mind. Everything about this movie is just terrible. It lacked strong acting, good directing and even decent special effects. Even a quick television add will reveal to people just how cartoony and straight out of XBox Hulk looks.
Worse yet though is the constant split screen, film-schooly direction of Ang Lee, which is revoltingly hip and totally nauseating. Eric Bana is to Bill Bixby what Adam Sandler is to Lawerence Oliver. He is bland, passionless and matches the poor performances regurgitated by the rest of the cast. Great actors like Nolte, Elliott and even Connelley are dragged through all nine plains of ... by Lee's unconsionable, horrid direction. But the movie's wretchedness does not end there.
The script, a ridiculous mess woven by THREE hacks, drags this thing out for two and a half hours! It couldn't have been longer if Kevin Costner had been involved. It takes forty-five minutes just to see a little green.
I'm not one to shun a good build-up and a rich storyline, but this film has niether. The story, like the action scenes of the film, are tension-free and yawn inspiring. The build-up is more of a bore down. The audience is dragged through dull characters and scenes so that by the time they see the Hulk they're relieved that he is even in the movie rather than being excited by his transformation, which incidentally, is terribly done : one minute he's a shrimp, the next he is the size of a bus, there is no real transition. Which brings us to another problem: he is simply too big. Is Lee planning on having him fight Godzilla or Rodan for the sequel? His size is so preposterous that it is more comical than impressive. While the movie does stick to the comics more than the old series did, Hulk still does things which I think he would never do (like biting a missile in half and spitting it at a target, making it explode), and worse yet he does things which make too little sense. He doesn't transform back even when he's calm sometimes, and other times Banner seems to have too much controll over the monster within him for the other scenes where he explodes to make any sense. The original series may have changed things around, but much like in BATMAN RETURNS, the alterations were acceptible because they worked. That series was brillant and I am thrilled that the pilot film is now on DVD. It's raw power and the surges of emotion that flush through it are far more intense than anything you'd find here in this over-premoted, under-developed, poorly done remake. Comic book movies are hit or miss: BATMAN, BATMAN RETURNS and SPIDER-MAN are brilliant masterpieces. But BATMAN FOREVER, BATMAN AND ROBIN, THE PUNISHER (the 89 one), DAREDEVIL and this new HULK are hot loads of manure. I hope this franchise ends here. It would be a sin for it to make any more money and disappoint any more loyal fans than it already has by putting out this aweful abomination to cinema and comic history. Hulk Smash? Not this time.
Rating:
Summary: This should be called The Kangaroo.
Review: The CG Hulk looked absolutely awful, and his habit of "jumping" around the landscape like a kangaroo seriously degraded the already bad movie. The ending was not clear and the characters were not developed well.
Rating: 
Summary: Three 1/2 stars out of Four
Review: As 'Hulk' (many mistakenly call it THE Hulk. Not so - it is called HULK) opens up with the now-familiar Marvel logo, you know you're in for yet another comic-adapted movie. This is not your average comic-adaptation. If you go into this movie expecting another Spider-Man with lighter, more fulfilling messages, than you will be disappointed. If you go in expecting another action-packed, blood splattering Daredevil, you will be sorely disappointed. 'Hulk' is not an action movie, although there are some incredibly well-done fights (especially one in which the Hulk battles some canines on steroids). You may be asking, okay, so it's not an action movie. What is it then? 'Hulk' is about exploring oneself, about finding out what drives oneself. 'Hulk' is not without its flaws, and there are many. Director Ang Lee (of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) uses comic-esque split-screens to 'better relay' the action. I found these thoroughly annoying and believe that these take away some of the beauty of Ang Lee's visuals. I will not go further indepth with the editing - see it for yourself and then decide. Is it better than Spider-Man? Perhaps. I certainly think that it could have been. The acting is top-notch, the directing astounding, and it stays fairly true to its origins. 'Hulk' is incredibly insightful and enjoyable but I find it sad. It could have been so much more. 'Hulk' is dark, at times too long and slow, but is much more than another comic-adaption. It is a tragedy.
Rating:
Summary: Hulk (2003)
Review: THIS MOVIE WAS EVERYTHING I EXPECTED AND TO ME IT WAS BETTER
THAN SPIDER-MAN.THE FIRST HALF OF THE MOVIE WAS SLOW AND IT
TOOK A LONG TIME TO SEE THE HULK'S FIRST APPEAREANCE BUT THE
SECOND HALF WAS AWESOME AS YOU SEE THE HULK BATTALING THE MILITARY,HULK DOGS,AND ANOTHER CREATURE KNOWN AS ABSORBTING
MAN.HULK GOT SHOT AT BY BULLETS,MISSILES AND EVERYTHING ELSE
AND IT DIDN'T HURT HIM.THE HULK COULD JUMP SO HIGH AND FAR
IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS FLYING AND THE MADDER HULK GOT THE
STRONGER HE GOT.THE CGI ON THE HULK WAS GREAT AND HE WAS VERY
TALL.I LOVED THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE HULK AND THE 3 HULK DOGS
THAT WAS SO COOL.ANOTHER ONE OF MY FAVORITE SEANS WAS WERE THE
HULK THRU SOMEBODY THRU A WINDOW AND ALSO WERE HE BATTLED
ASORBITING MAN.BRUCE BANNER'S(ERIC BANA)FATHER DAVID BANNER
(NICK NOLTI)EXPOSED HIS SELF TO THE SAME GAMMA RADIATION
AS BRUCE ACCIDENTLY GOT SO HE BECOME A CREATURE AS STRONG
AS THE HULK.THIS MOVIE WAS NOTHING LIKE THE TELEVISION
SERIES.YOU ONLY SAW HULK FIGHT ONE CREATURE IN THE EPISODE
THE FIRST WERE HE FOUGHT ANOTHER HULK AND WON BUT MOSTLEY
THE SERIES PITTED HULK UP AGAINST MOSTLEY BAD GUYS.HULK
COULDN'T JUMP AS HIGH OR RUN AS FAST IN THE SERIES.
AND BULLETS COULD HAVE KILLED HIM IN THE SHOW WERE THEY
DIDN'T IN THE MOVIE.IN THE SHOW HULK NEVER GOT HURT SO
BAD HE FELL OR WAS THROWN BACK EXCEPT FOR IN THE FIRST
WHEN THE OTHER HULK THRU HIM INTO A MACHINE BEFORE HE GOT
MAD AND WHIPPED THE OTHER HULK.IN THE MOVIE HULK GETS THROWN
BACK SEVERAL TIMES DUE TO MISSLES,BOMBS,GAMMA OR HULK DOGS,
GOING INTO SPACE ON TOP OF A PLANE WERE THE COLD AIR AND LACK
OF OXYGEN CAUSE HIM TO FREEZE AND FALL INTO A LAKE FROM THE SKY
AND FIGHTING THE OTHER CREATURE THE ASOBTING MAN WHICH WAS A
VILLIN IN THE COMICS.ALSO IF YOU LOVE SPECIAL EFFECTS HULK
SMASHES AND DESTROYS HELICOPTERS AND TANKS LIKE THEY WERE
MATCHSTICKS. THE ONLY NEGATIVE I COULD FIND WRONG WITH
THIS MOVIE IS THAT IT STARTS TOO SLOW AND YOU ONLY SEE LOU FARRIGNO AND STAN LEE FOR JUST A MINUTE I WAS HOPING TO SEE
THEM MORE.HOPEFULLY THIS MOVIE WILL MAKE AS MUCH AS SPIDER-MAN
SO UNIVERSAL WILL RELEASE THE TELEVISION SERIES ON DVD.I CAN'T
WAIT FOR THE DVD RELEASE OF THIS MOVIE AND HOPE IT GETS RELEASED
IN EARLY OCTOBER.A WORD OF WARNING THOUGH.IF YOUR GOING TO
SEE THIS BECAUSE YOU THINK IT'S LIKE THE TV SERIES YOU'LL
BE DISSAPOINTED.IF YOUR GOING TO SEE IT BASED ON THE COMIC BOOK
YOU'LL BE HAPPY.ALSO I FORGOT TO MENTION HULK TALKED AT THE
END OF THE MOVIE WHEN HE WAS BATTELING ASOBTING MAN.RUMOR IS
THAT THEY ARE ALREADY WORKING ON HULK 2.HOPEFULLY WE WILL SEE
HULK BATTLE THE LEADER AND THE ABOMBINATION(ANOTHER BIGGER HULK)
IN HULK 2.
Rating:
Summary: I Really Wanted To Like It......
Review: Ang Lee's Hulk seems like a love-it-or-hate-it type of movie, and I'm sure that in the weeks ahead it'll become quite fashionable to take potshots at the film, so I'll going to try to keep my review fair. I've been a fan of The Hulk since I was two years old; The comics, the cartoons, the TV show, toys, everything. I tried to keep my pre-conceived notions to a minimum, and I was actually impressed by how well the screenplay did with integrating various important characters from the Hulk mythos, as well as the way it managed to stress the psychological underpinnings of the character in addition to the scientific aspects. But in the end, the movie will stand or fall depending on one thing: The filmmaker's ability to convince the audience the The Hulk is real. That's where I had a problem... Eric Bana plays Bruce Krenzler, a mild-mannered civillian scientist working on a top-secret Military project; Jennifer Connolly is Betty Ross, his co-worker/former lover. Krenzler is haunted by snatches of repressed memories from his childhood, and when a seedy-looking Janitor named David Banner (Nick Nolte) starts working nights cleaning the labs, Bruce's problems REALLY start. Seems Bruce is really Bruce BANNER, the crazy janitor is really his Dad, and Dad's not looking for a family reunion, either- He wants to see what effect his self-experimentation had on his offspring in the thirty years since they last saw each other. Bruce is accidentally dosed with radiation and nanobots in a freak lab mishap, and before you know it, his carefully controlled temper is taking on a life of it's own......A big, green life. I didn't hate the film, but I didn't really like it either. It just kind of....was there, I guess. Bana really isn't given much to do except be victimized, and that's a shame since he's a very talented actor, as he showed in Chopper. Connolly looks pretty and dazed, Nolte looks and acts crazy, Josh Lucas plays the pre-requisite Army creep...Only Sam Elliott really stands out as Betty's father, General "Thunderbolt" Ross. At times it seemed like he had wandered in from a different movie; His performance was THAT much better than the others. Or at least more lively; The rest of the cast seems like they just woke up. The film seemed overlong, and really dragged in spots. Director Ang Lee uses split-screen/picture-in-picture techniques to simulate the feel of a comic-book brought to life, and it works, to an extent, but to me split-screen in a movie has always seemed cheap-looking and pretentious, and after a while it really got annoying. I was stuck on one plot point, too- If Nolte's character is so dangerous, how about keeping tabs on him after he got released from prison? How did he get a job cleaning a top-secret facility? How can he get into seemingly restricted areas at will? Why doesn't Betty tell her Father where Nolte lives as soon as she realizes what he's doing? But as I said, my real problem was The Hulk himself: I just didn't believe him for a minute. The effects just looked cheesy, and I can't put my finger on any one reason. First off, he was WAAAY too tall; At times he looked to be about 15 feet tall, and seeing people running around at knee level just reminded me of a Godzilla movie. Wasn't the 8-10 feet range presented in the comics tall enough...? The height of The Hulk in the movie made all of the action sequences look oddly off somehow. Regardless, after the seamless integration of the CGI Gollum with live-action actors in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the bar was raised, and Hulk doesn't stack up. Gollum seemed totally real; Hulk seems like a cartoon brought into the real world, making his interaction with the "real" actors look like a Roger Rabbit-esque blend of live-action and Disney-style animation. I just could NOT suspend my disbelief enough, no matter how hard I tried. A few members of the audience I saw it with were laughing derisively throughout the film, which is never a good sign. And did we really need that French-Poodle...? The sequence in the desert wher The Hulk battles an armored column of Tanks was good, and the effects seemed more streamlined there, maybe because of the color scheme; I was surprised at the inclusion of a plot twist at the end that leads up to the big action finale, and comic fans will get a smile out of seeing a classic Hulk villain kinda-sorta brought to the big-screen, but overall I found The Hulk to be a joyless, overlong film that was more disappointing because I wanted to love it, but just couldn't. Maybe the sequel will be more my cup of tea.....
Rating: 
Summary: the hulk is HUGE!
Review: I have just seen THE HULK. while I remember the tv series very well from the 80's. I was alittle concerned with the CGI graphics morphing him up. having seen all of recent CGI disney related movie--eg: SHREK. the state of special effects with today technology is wonderful. watching THE HULK and seeing his hair blow around and sweat running down his cheeks and chest---amazing today. bottom line----wonderful special effects, nice performances from the leads---way over the top from nick nolte and solid stoic acting from sam elliot makes the hulk a worthy movie to see. the movie runs I think a little too long but with that---you do get more story and background on characters. the movie does have some unsettling scenes which might get the youngsters upset. the movie succeeds because it has very nice story and characters you care about. if THE HULK had not had a good story this would have ended up an action movie with brain dead visuals. does it look real?----well, yes and no but THE HULK is green and so will be the companies profits. go see the movie and have fun. stan, lou and bill should be proud(nice cameos also). sequel anyone?
Rating:
Summary: Very Strange
Review: This movie just kept going and going and going. I really wasn't feeling the characters, their lives just didn't have any value to me. Then we have this girl who is unhumanly obsessed with helping this person who turns green and smashes everything, yeah right. We didn't really like the ending either, I won't give it away, but it was pretty stupid. Now, the hulk is extremely invulnerable. Its interesting at first, then it drags on until I say, okay he's not going to die. They keep shooting at him, it becomes annoying because the bullets are bouncing off his skin. Everything that happens to him he seems to survive no sweat. He doesn't get a skratch on him and it really get on my nerves. He even wins against 3 dogs laced with his DNA. The extra star is for the effects I guess. Yes it did look fake, but it didn't really bother me and if you look at the past special effects, you will kiss this ones feet. Besides, its about the plot, not the graphics. A lot of other people liked this so I can't really say its horrible and give it 1 star, but it did have flaws.
Rating:
Summary: The incredible bulk
Review: HULK is one of the most overrated, boring, tepid films you will see this summer. The suprising thing is how many well-respected and talented film critics have praised the HULK to no end. This is NOT a deep and dark "talkie" with lots of meaningful action as some reviewers have said. The first hour moves incredibly slow which would be fine if it were interesting. There is no real explanation or validity in the type of research Betty Ross and Bruce Banner are doing; you get the feeling the writers made up information about genetic research as they went along. Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly (who lifts her own performance from "A Beautiful Mind," only failing to recapture her magic from that role) are completely wooden in their roles--even if they are supposed to be repressed children living in the shadow of their fathers' mistakes. What should have been the biggest and brightest spot in the movie (the Hulk himself) is anemic and totally unconvincing; even suspending your disbelief, you have a hard time accepting CGI images as the Hulk (who looks like a washed-out Jolly Green Giant.) Nick Nolte (as David Banner) is also unconvincing and over the top. He spends so much time spitting and snarling that you feel the need to reach for a towel and a rabies shot. The flashback and dream scenes (interspersed throughtout THE HULK) are the best the movie has to offer and give you an idea of where things could have gone to make this a brilliant film.
Rating:
Summary: It was alright...
Review: The HULK is a very unbalanced movie, I found the film to go on a little long in some areas, repeating others... The references (or homages) to 'Frankenstein' and 'King Kong' are a little annoying for anyone old enough to have seen those original scenes done better. I liked the acting, Josh Lucas as Talbot was quite annoying though, as the traditional human bad guy in it for the $. Also the actors in the flashback scenes setting up our story were really weak. I was actually disappointed with what Eric Bana as Bruce Krenzzler was given to do. I was one of the few who seemed to enjoy Nick Nolte's take on his character. The dialogue and plot are kind of lumpy, it could have benefitted from some editing. We could have benefitted seeing how HULK reacted to civilians or what news coverage was like, to establish the scope of a giant green monster tearing through San Fran. The Hulk is actually a lot more thoughtful than in the books, he's gentle around Betty and only lashing out at people he should be angry at. Not much misplaced rage at all. So much of this was plagued by short-sightedness or bad execution. The CGI is really bad in spots, but I was fine w/ most of it. There is a cool stylistic flourish that reminds you of a comic book, but it is repeated in boring ways later on and becomes irritating. The desert town was gorgeous as well as one all-too brief scene in a dream, Jellyfish are swimming on Mars atmosphere, that is an incredible Dali-esque look. I have no idea what happened in the end with David Banner, I wish there was more to his character than simply a guy who was put away for 30 years. I would have liked to have seen an example of David beating on his wife and child in that small brick room of theirs. I never took Bruce's early childhood seriously and the Hulk didn't seem like such a bad existence, where was Bruce or Betty's concern for civilian lives or property damage !?? I was really disappoined until HULK took to the desert, from there it looked like Ang Lee had been given all of Universal's cash. Having seen those scenes, I can now see just how atrocious the marketing campaign has been in comparison. I loved the movie only for that one scene which brought to life the character for a moment. I won't need the smallscreen DVD, but seeing that on the big screen was worth 6 dollars, it just could have been worth more. They'll probably blame poor box office on piracy but I'm sure with all those tie-in deals they'll hardly care. "Go see: THE HULK, sponsored by the government of Mexico!"
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