Just when you thought superhero movies could be a little more than a string of clichés wrapped around tons of shattered CGI glass and rock, comes the new Hulk....

Rating: Null/10 (20 September 2008)

THE INCREDIBLE HULK on the other hand takes a hamfisted James Bond route. It somehow creates a sprawling adventure mess that takes us through a tired string of horribly cliché scenes from a Brazilian favela all the way to Broadway. As a result the only way this revamped HULK can sustain our interest is by staging bigger, louder and more CGI laden action scenes - by the time the Broadway showdown was in full swing I simply couldn't care less. As if the stock characters and stock dialogue weren't enough (we even get the stock zany NYC cab driver, a NYC establishing shot all by himself - where have I seen that before?!!), we have to further suffer through Liv Tyler's idea of acting - her mere presence on screen instantly makes a scene bland. In fact I wager that you could intercut a shot of Liv Tyler within every classic scene in the history of cinema and those scenes would be ruined beyond all recognition. Any attempts at humour or romance fall flat on their face, she has NO chemistry whatsoever with Ed Norton who in turn is in full paycheck mode. HULK is everything the superhero movies I saw as a kid were - exercises in shattered glass, broken walls and loud explosions. Beyond that the void. I would go as far as to say that it is *gasp* vapid drivel!!!!!