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USA 2003
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, Cara Buono, Paul Kersey
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: 17 June 2003
Running Time: 2 hours 18 minutes
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In these recent years, comic publisher called Marvel surely enjoying harvesting money from its comic-based Movies. From the success of Blade, X-Men to Spider-man, I didn't think Marvel's success is going to be halted anytime soon. Especially with the release of Hulk, the green burly superhero. Hulk is even directed by the same person who brought you Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee. Surely Hulk is implied with a guarantee of satisfaction, right? Not...
Eric Bana is Dr. Bruce Banner, the son of the genius Dr. David Banner. Bruce inherits his father rare blood. Not rare by nature, but as a product of David's research for cell regeneration that will make human immortal, which David eventually experiments on himself. Bruce Banner having remembered nothing of his childhood now also works as scientist along with Dr. Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly). But apparently Bruce feels something very different about him every time he's angry, until finally Bruce turns into a big green burly man, whom Bruce calls it (himself) Hulk. Bruce has to solve the mystery of his transformation fast before Hulk endangers more and more Bruce and Betty.
First of all, this superhero flick is over-stylishly directed, with cut out scenes paste unto another, or in other words, picture-in-picture framed scenes. Probably in order to make it look more like a comic book. However those scenes are jumpy too, again with comic-esque style, that instead of making it looks cool, it's irksome. And strangely, Hulk is devoid of any exciting superhero-esque musical score or soundtrack.
The special effect? Oh yes, when Bruce got fired by gamma beam at the lab, everything just went silence and as I was hoping to see some cool effects, poof, Bruce already sitting nicely on his room at the hospital. And as an occasional gamer, I'm pretty much sure that Hulk in this movie is like the monster creature from the clan Orc, or probably mmm like Shrek? Once Hulk shows up, it's like seeing cartoon character fighting real people. With a budget up to more than one hundred million dollars...? Hmmm..
Hulk has a slow pace, a very slow pace that even at the first scenes, those scenes are just picturing how scientists are working, yeah only working with a bit introduction to Hulk's past and all, whew it should have been edited more neatly. Eric Bana's character, Bruce Banner, is totally wooden and expressionless. While Jennifer Connelly's acting is good with her crying, but still she seems don't have anything to say, with occasionally gaping mouth. I wonder how their acting could be so rudimentary with lines of dialogue that feel to be coming out of talking machines, except a scene between Nick Nolte (David Banner) and Bruce when they're tied-up. And don't even start to talk about chemistry, zilch percent.
Back then, the theater was full of people eager to see how another expected Marvel's movie would be, but highly-likely they were let down, I know I was. And I simply left the theater with disappointment, and I'm not even a fan of Hulk. Think about how the fans would have felt about it. Whew must've been kinda awful. I don't even have the heart to recommend this flick for renting. Except if you are drop-dead curious.
Hulk is a superhero movie that truly is irksome, bothersome and mind-numbing. Another Hulk film in the future would have to exercise some more to be a movie that as burly and as huge as the real Hulk character.
© iwan pranowo of Movielogy.com
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