Nothing incredible in this movie

Rating: 2/10 (30 November 2013)

This is a reboot of Hulk franchise after not quite fair negative response from both audience and critics of Ang Lee "The Hulk". "The Incredible Hulk" goes completely different way than Ang Lee . This is no drama with serious ambitions , but simple and mindless popcorn action flick.
The obvious problem lies in the screenplay . The story is predictable , full of clichés and the characters are barely written . Maybe that's the reason why the actors can't show anything interesting. There are some nice jokes here and the movie has many easter eggs for Hulk fans (cameo of Stan Lee , cameo of Lou Ferrigno , the jokes with pants , the "Lonely man" theme). The bland direction from Louis Letterier doesn't help either , just as the rather awful CGI.
Edward Norton is a good actor , but she doesn't show here anything that any other actor could show. Tim Ruth is terribly weak and almost becomes a parody of himself. William Hurt is nice as the general Ross , especially considering that he's stuck in a very one-dimensional role. The worst performance of the movie certainly belongs to Liv Tyler . Not only she's been cast as the scientist Betty Ross , which is unbelievable , but her over dramatic performance gave me many laughs.
The fans of Hulk were rather pleased with this one . Other viewers will be rather disappointed with this quite boring movie . It's got nothing to impress the audience – no substance , no interesting action. A pretty forgettable movie only for die-hard comic book fans. I give it 2/10.