OK, not great

Rating: 6/10 (30 June 2008)

Iron Man is much better. If you read further than this I'll tell you what was wrong or missing. Here are just a few: < 1. Way too many leaps of faith needed, as too many details were taken for granted and not explained or just eliminated as the story flew past. But, it was made for kids and what do they know? < 2. Edward Norton was totally miscast. Too wimpy. Too hurt little boy looking. Liv Tyler, she of the big botox upper lip, was also way too tall for him. < 3. The Hulk's face looked like a cross between Michael J. Fox and Ray Liotta. Not scary at all, unless little boy faces scare you. Just a little boy Bluto head on top of a Lou Ferrigno on mutant monster steroids body, just an everyday green body you see all the time. < 4. Why did the Hulk have to roar like a gorilla or a lion all the time? Just for scares? Didn't work. Not with that little boy face. And, people, even Hulk/people, don't do that all the time where I live. < 5. If bullets and bombs, etc. couldn't take him out, how could the Hulk hurt his little headie-poo by bumping it on a cave ceiling? < 6. The movie set up yet another sequel so obviously and shamelessly it could have been a classroom case study on "what not to do when ending a good film", except for Hollywood blockbuster action filmmakers only caring about all the money they make from kids now and on the endless sequels, even if it is their parent's money. What do they care? < 7. This was the very last Hulk I will pay for. Seen it all.