Fantastic is one thing it most certainly isn't

Rating: 6/10 (14 July 2005)

I think I liked this movie more because I had no expectation whatsoever, which is good because, had I had any, it would not have lived up to them. The characters, even the fun, wise-cracking Johnny, were more like cardboard cut-outs than actual fleshed-out characters. You had the tough/smart babe (Jessica Alba) the brilliant yet awful at relationships scientist (Ioan Gruffud) the take-nothing-seriously-yet-become-a-hero-in-the-end wise-cracker (Chris Evans, and lastly the only decent character, the man who becomes twisted and must live with his deformity and learn to embrace his power (Michael Chiklis).
However, after acknowledging this, I could actually sit back and moderately enjoy the movie. The first half-hour was the best, then it got a bit tedious while we waited for the clobbering to start, then it started and, after it kept clobbering for the entire last half-hour of the movie, it was quite tiring.
I like it a lot better in retrospect than I did immediately after, but it is no classic. Then again, you could do a lot worse, take Hulk for example.