Not as Good as Advertised

Rating: 4/10 (17 June 2008)

I had hoped that since the last Hulk movie came out only five years ago that this one would be something really incredible, something so good that it couldn't have waited. And it wasn't.
The movie tries to be too dramatic. Several scenes go into slow motion and drag themselves out, trying for drama but just taking more time. It seemed as though they were ignoring the pattern of a story (beginning, rising action, etc...) and just went for climax after climax, which I didn't buy into because there was no rising action.
The visual effects were impressive, but personally I can't enjoy a film that is powered mainly on how it looks. That can only be cool for so long.
In the end, I didn't really care much about any of the characters. Emil Blonsky was the most forced of them all, who just seems to be the generic bad guy without being an awesome bad guy.
slight spoilers!!! Towards the end of the movie, the Hulk does a "Hulk Smash" by pounding on the ground, and he unfortunately says, "Hulk Smash!" right before he does it. It felt like hearing "it's morphing time" or something equally cheesy.
My personal recommendation is to play Hulk: Ultimate Destruction instead.