A pointless movie that can't figure out its own plot.

Rating: 1/10 (29 November 2011)

This was an excruciating "reboot" of Ang Lee's "Hulk", which was a far superior movie in my opinion. Had I known that the writer of "Inspector Gadget" and "Last Action Hero" was responsible for this, I wouldn't have watched. This story really doesn't bother with the comic book Hulk, and mostly just takes from the TV show. The one nod to the comic book is the return of the Betty and General Ross characters (which could just as easily been lifted from the last movie, without referring to the comics at all). However, this Betty is pretty ineffectual as a character and the General is nothing more than a dimwitted antagonist. The General's brainless plan involves capturing the Hulk's alter ego, Bruce Banner, and returning him to the military for study. His reason is that Banner's blood is the result of the army's experiments to create a "super soldier". However, we find out in the first act that the army already has the serum for this super soldier and injects it into the Generals lackey, in order to better conquer the Hulk. So why are they trying to capture Banner then, instead of just shooting him in the head? Later, the General finds another doctor that's been helping Banner, and has a storehouse of his blood. So they have everything that they need and decide to just leave it in a lab with no more than one army official and a Royal British special ops grunt. This has got to be the stupidest general in the U.S. Army. I would love to see the report that he sends to his superiors in Washington after all of the unnecessary carnage that has occurred under his watch. These are just some of the major flaws with the poor writing and execution in this movie. A big laugh happens when the British Marine has a few scenes wearing U.S. Army officer attire, complete with U.S. badges and medals on his lapel. If you want to watch a really ambitious super hero film, complete with character study and depth, watch Ang Lee's version. If you want to watch a CGI demo reel that's not really better than Ang Lee's version, have fun with this one.