"Why do you keep hitting people?"

Rating: 6/10 (14 May 2020)

The Incredible Hulk was the second movie to be released by Marvel as part of their then new MCU idea and after Iron Man was such a massive success fans couldn't wait to see what Marvel had in store for the new Hulk reboot and it's safe to say they didn't disappoint fans.
The Incredible Hulk has been given many different interpretations since as early as 1977 with The Incredible Hulk TV show starring (Bill Bixby) as David Banner and (Lou Ferrigno) as the green menance The Hulk after that were some animated Hulk movies and a Cartoon series that were fun to watch as a kid in the 90s then in 2003 we got a live action movie simply named Hulk starring (Eric Banner) as Bruce Banner and a CGI Hulk the movie wasn't the greatest and most audiences and fans agreed that is was pretty boring and forgetable but the action and CGI looked great especially for the early 2000s no plans for a sequal were made and The Hulk just vanished from screens once again.
The Incredible Hulk (2008) is the best standalone Hulk movie ever made Marvel took what worked in the previous movie and improved upon it the CGI is better the Hulk is much more defined and detailed and instead of telling another Hulk origin story this movie basically gets straight into the story of (Edward Nortons) character Bruce Banner in hiding from the US military trying to find a way of controlling his anger while working to figure out a cure for his Hulk problem but the government tracks him down and plans to take control of the Hulk creation leading to Banner going on the run yet again tracking down a cure.
I personally liked that the movie doesn't hold your hand by having to fill you in on the back story of the Hulk and gets right into what people wanna see The Hulk and not Bruce Banner in a laboratory creating The Hulk for an hour like the last movie did you get filled in on the back story a little during the opening credits but that's it and that's not a bad thing we all know who The Hulk is even if you don't know the full back story it's easy to jump into this movie and enjoy it without all the boring exposition dialogue.
The special effects and CGI in this movie are top quality and while later movies in the MCU like the Avengers and Thor Ragnarok have a much better looking CGI Hulk and have Mark Ruffalo playing the role of Bruce Banner and The Hulk this standalone movie set the stage for The Hulk joining the Avengers and led to The Hulk becoming a fan favourite character in the MCU.
I highly recommend watching this movie especially if your a comic book fan and a Hulk fan even if your not into the MCU as a whole this is a good standalone movie that helped start everything along with Iron Man.