The Incredible Hulk (2008) - Hulk Smash!

Rating: 7/10 (20 May 2012)

After receiving harsh reviews for 2003's "Hulk", starring Eric Bana, Marvel immediately decided to reboot the Hulk franchise with 2008's "The Incredible Hulk", this time, starring Edward Norton as the giant, raging green monster. Now, the Hulk isn't my favorite Marvel superhero, but is rather considered as one of the coolest superheroes. Set with a new back-story on Bruce Banner, a.k.a The Hulk, Banner travels from place to place, to help find a cure to prevent himself from becoming the Hulk, while making sure to not be spotted by the military. Although this isn't the best portrayal of the Hulk that I've seen in a while, Edward Norton does deliver a fine quality and relativity to the Bruce Banner character. But the visual effects perform a weak job at making the Hulk effect look like Edward Norton. Besides Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Ty Burrell, and Tim Blake Nelson round up the rest of the supporting cast. Tim Roth shares a pretty decent portrayal of Emil Blonsky, a.k.a The Abomination, and William Hurt does his best playing General "Thunderbolt" Ross, obsessed in capturing the Hulk. But Liv Tyler brings out the weakest performance of the entire cast, playing Norton's love-interest, Elizabeth Ross. She spits out her dialouge in such a cheesy manner, and she delivers bland execution to go along with it. I honestly don't know why she's even in this movie! This movie does deliver some impressive action scenes that are quite enjoyable to watch, but they're placed in the wrong place at the wrong time. These scenes are just placed in random elements of the plot, and they don't fit appropriately into the story as it progresses. It feels like it's just there to promise the audience for there to be an action movie. For example, the final battle scene between the Hulk and the Abomination was entertaining to watch, but it just didn't develop into the plot precisely, so that the audience can see a fight scene already. But those scenes are enjoyable to watch, however, and worth the price of admission. "The Incredible Hulk" isn't one of the best Marvel films I've seen in my life, but it's still quite an entertaining movie that sometimes knew what it wanted to be. I just wished that the movie would have been so much better at arranging the action scenes at a more precise moment, fitting perfectly in the story itself. But it's still a pretty damn fun movie to watch with your friends. "The Incredible Hulk", in my review, "poorly executed, but undeniably entertaining".