Norton good, action boring

Rating: 6/10 (17 September 2008)

I must admit I never liked the HULK concept. An angry green guy that smashes things... I do like the concept of Bruce Banner. Torn apart by the unstoppable force that gets unleashed as soon as he gets too upset he can't live a normal life. The only choice he has is to become a drifter outside society.
In the incredible Hulk Edward Norton makes a great Bruce Banner. Far away from his earlier life we find him working in a third world factory. There's no question he want his old life back, he carries a picture of Liv Tyler with him and on his laptop he has a contact (Mr Blue) that is trying to find a solution to his HULK problem.
So far, the story and acting is good. The problem with many superhero-movies is that they need super-villains. We've seen the problem with one villain too much in spiderman 3 and that is what the incredible hulk suffers from as well. The action sequences with the abomination is plain boring and it would be enough to see Bruce Banner gets hunted by the authorities without having to involve something just to get to sell plastic toys to kids...