Where Edward Beats Eric

Rating: 8/10 (22 February 2010)

Scoot over Spider-Man and all your other appalling sequels, there's a big, scary green man taking over. No it's not the jolly green giant on a vegetable shortage, it's another one of Stan Lee's creations that has become an icon in the superhero industry, the one and only, "The Incredible Hulk". When I left the theaters I'm pretty sure the reception was positive or satisfying to say the least. Who could blame them? With an outstanding plot, Edward Norton's amazingly breath-taking performance, the action that's always exciting, what's there to hate? This movie exceeds everything the original Hulk with Eric Bana in many of the essential ingredients that makes movie-making successful.
What scenes developed in the Eric Bana version was accomplished at a much shorter time in Edward Norton's version and more effectively. It gives you that extra boost as we see our hero who's running from the American government in South America. Nothing better than watching one monster collide with another one. He's not doing to flex his muscles and to look scary, but he's doing it to save his girlfriend and to protect humanity in every way possible. The message is quite sublime, you can see it to believe it.
I can't blame Eric Bana entirely why the acting in "The Hulk" was revolting. He showed his acting skills wonderfully in "Troy",so what went wrong? In "The Incredible Hulk", the love story was more immaculate and the dialogue was handled with more believable quotes from Mr. Norton and Liv Tyler. Norton is just an amazingly talented performer and his delivery of lines was simply poetic. There was a bit of humour thrown in for good measure, but unlike "Transformers", the one-liners were sporadic and not over-the-top silly.
The newly transformed Hulk looks more real and not heavily saturated in cheesy CGI. Even the design has more human looks than computerized adding effect to the fighting scenes. The action scenes were perfectly choreographed and the real-life Hulk design made it all the more possible.
I must say this is a great film to enjoy and a complete makeover from the abomination that was "The Hulk". I even had low expectations when seeing this movie, after watching "The Incredible Hulk" I was really marveled by the experience (pun intended).