Good picture - with interesting philosophical worm-cans

Rating: 9/10 (2 November 2008)

Compared to Ang Lee's version of the 'Hulk'  this version is far, far better. The story is superlatively better  and of course, no matter how good Eric Bana is as an actor, Edward Norton  is better to the extreme.
The plot is better too, though I will not say much about it.
About Tim Roth's unnamed monster  it must be said that it had a certain potential to be improved. Something uncertain was missing  to say the least.
One thing that makes everything worth seeing the film  is the interesting philosophical discussion opened when General Thaddeus Ross first  at an early stage of the movie  says: «As far as I'm concerned, that man's whole body is property of the U.S. army» and somewhat later, after Bruce Banner has been treated by Dr. Samuel Sterns: «If you've taken it from me, I'm going to put you in a home for the rest of your life.» The can of worms opened here, is the general understanding that man is not his own master (not delving into any religious conceptions here), but the notion that the "state" as such can own a human being.
That is of course not in any case true. A man is and remains his own master, with his own free will, and can not be sold  in the same way that a man cannot sell his soul to the devil  because it is not a saleable commodity.
This even remains a vital part of the American Declaration of Independence, quoted in the following: «We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.  That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED,  That WHENEVER ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR TO ABOLISH IT, AND TO INSTITUTE NEW GOVERNMENT, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. BUT WHEN A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS, PURSUING INVARIABLY THE SAME OBJECT EVINCES A DESIGN TO REDUCE THEM UNDER ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM, IT IS THEIR RIGHT, IT IS THEIR DUTY, TO THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT, and to provide new Guards for their future security».
Since the views presented by General Ross absolutely belongs under the characterization of "despotism", I'd just as well wish, this would have been stated clearly  in the movie, as an explicit answer to the theories of General Thaddeus Ross