A typical comic-book superhero film. Only the most die-hard Hulk fans will find this film good...

Rating: 5/10 (15 October 2008)

Another typical comic book superhero movie with the usual omgwtfbbq plot twist as its ending. Putting the CGI special effects aside, this film does not warrant a high rating as a cinematic masterpiece, mainly because of the various scenes that proved...(read more) to be haphazardly stitched together for i) plot and, ii) comic relief.
Plot: The opening credits scene of 2 minutes and 55 seconds undoubtedly served as a quick start for non-Hulk fans to understand the history of the Hulk. This quick start had plenty of room for improvement, as it can be seen as the simplest way out (no dialog, just cut scenes and panning shots of newspaper clips and computer screens).
Comic relief: Multiple scenes which serve no purpose in moving the plot forward, but are meant to inject comic relief, but which still fail terribly in the latter are also present in this film. Scenes including a) cellular biologist Dr. Elizabeth Ross (Liv Tyler) not knowing that her lip gloss and watch cannot be tracked by the US Army, b) taxi scene where Elizabeth Ross shouts at the driver for driving too fast, and c) Banner falling from the helicopter realizes that he hasn't yet transformed into the Hulk, exclaims "Oh sh*t!", and still ends up making a big hole in the ground with a last-minute transformation.