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Trouble the Water
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U2 3D
82
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82
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82
Frozen River
82
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81
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
79
Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
78
I've Loved You So Long
77
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75
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Frost/Nixon
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55
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34
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32
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30
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28
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Hulk, The
Universal Pictures
FILM:
GAMES:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, some disturbing images and brief partial nudity
Starring
Eric Bana,
Jennifer Connelly,
Sam Elliott,
Josh Lucas,
Nick Nolte,
Paul Kersey,
Cara Buono,
and
Todd Tesen
Acclaimed Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee turns his masterful eye to adapting the classic Marvel Comics character for the big screen. (Universal Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Sci-fi
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| WRITTEN BY: |
John Turman
Michael France
James Schamus (also story)
Jack Kirby and Stan Lee (based on the Marvel comic book character created by)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Ang Lee
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 28, 2003
Video: October 28, 2003
Theatrical: June 20, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
137 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A movie likely to rally huge audiences who want to take another roller coaster ride. And though it may disappoint a few of them, it's also a film that gives you something to think and feel sad about. It smashes you -- gently.

88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Karen Heller
A heady stew of psychological disorders and classic tragedies, borrowing from Shakespeare, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and the Greeks.

88
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Hulk represents the most involving superhero motion picture since "Superman" soared skywards in 1978. By taking its time to develop characters and situations, Hulk does what so many action/adventure movies fail to do -- allow us to really feel for the protagonists.

80
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Hits on all cylinders -- a smart blend of acting, direction, editing, design, costumes and effects.

80
Newsweek
David Ansen
Where so many comic-book movies feel as disposable as Kleenex, the passionate, uncynical Hulk stamps itself into your memory. Lees movies are built to last.

80
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
The result is perhaps the most elegantly shot, and certainly the most disturbing, of the recent fantasy films.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
No one has ever succeeded with anything approximating the sheer energetic brilliance of what Lee has managed here. For all intents and purposes, this is a comic-book movie in the very truest and most vibrant sense of the phrase.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Always energetic and sometimes cockamamie enough to be genuinely fun, Hulk is the blockbuster to beat this season.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The Hulk has a split personality: Two-thirds come from director Ang Lee, one-third from '60s comic book creator Stan Lee.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Ang Lee has boldly taken the broad outlines of a comic book story and transformed them to his own purposes; this is a comic book movie for people who wouldn't be caught dead at a comic book movie.

75
Premiere
Peter Debruge
Lees use of split-screens and dynamic transitions makes the process of actively interpreting his monstrous vision a fresh and unrivaled experience.

75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Lee's technique is impeccable, but he's chasing more inner demons than one creature feature can handle. No wonder the audience cheers when TV Hulk Lou Ferrigno shows up for a cameo. It's a reminder of a time when it was easier being green and a Hulk could just get pissed off and bust shit up.

70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
The Hulk is a beautiful movie, but it's unlikely to win points as a monster flick -- it's too elegant, too whimsical.

70
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
The real star is the splendid computer-generated Hulk, though his King Kong-like story is compromised by the need to keep him around for the inevitable sequel.

70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
This impeccably crafted piece of megabuck fantasy storytelling aims to pull off the tricky feat of significantly reworking the superhero format while still providing the expected tentpole-type entertainment thrills for the international masses.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Takes the form of a wounded behemoth, battling to negotiate a compromise between a strong artistic vision and franchise expectations. It doesn't fully succeed on either count, but its integrity and substance stand out like an oasis in a field of cotton candy.

67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Director Ang Lee displays enormous verve and flair. He creates ingenious transitions between scenes, deploying split-screens in a clever variation on comic book panels and, as ever, drawing coolly impassioned performances from the cast.

63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
I wanted more. I expected more. The filmmakers said it was going to be smart - really smart - like all of Lee's movies. Instead, it's big, dumb and fun.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Whereas the psychology is surreal and wonderfully fluid, the action is too real and surprisingly listless, displaying little of the kinetic zip, or the sheer lyricism, that Lee brought with such memorable effect to "Crouching Tiger."

60
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
In the end, we don't know what we're watching, an art-house superhero film or a computer-generated "King Kong." By trying to please both sensibilities, the filmmakers have pleased neither.

60
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
However nifty, Lee's Cubist gambit fails to capture the graphic tension that makes great comic-book art jump off the page and great pop movies jump off the screen with pow, zap and wow!

60
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
Some Marvel fans and die-hard devotees of Lou Ferrigno, the bodybuilder who played The Hulk on television (and who does a brief walk-on here), may find Ang Lee's whole enterprise grandiose and, given its not-always-successful attempt to fuse brains and brawn, a little bit silly.

60
The New Yorker
David Denby
Structurally a mess and unevenly made, but the first forty minutes or so are quite beautiful. [7 July 2003, p. 84]
60
Film Threat
Clint Morris
Folks read comics for enjoyment, not to admire how well the pictures are drawn, and the same axiom can be directed here with audiences likely to admire the work thats gone into this film -- rather than joyously enjoying the film itself.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
As this all plays out -- and basically segues into "King Kong" -- the movie wins its biggest gamble: its entirely computer-generated monster works.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
More thoughtful and pleasing to the eye than any blockbuster in recent memory, but its epic length comes without an epic reward. It's a slow ride to the same old place, nonstop action, accelerating in scale, culminating in the smirking promise of a sequel.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The main problem with The Hulk, really, is that there isn't enough Hulk in it.

50
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Nolte's exploding patriarch jacks up the story's antisocial wish fulfillment into a Nietzschean-anarchist's wet dream, but one can only vainly hope that the preordained sequel will head in that dastardly direction.

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The entirely computer-generated Hulk is a surprisingly expressive creation it certainly gives a better performance than Connelly but the action is late in coming and feels like a long set-up for the inevitable sequel.

50
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
To answer your first question: like a cross between Shrek, the Frankenstein monster, and a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot.

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
There's a fine line between darkness and glumness, one that "Spider-Man" bounced off buildings to avoid. The Hulk lumbers across it.

50
Slate
David Edelstein
Unlike your average comic-book blockbuster, The Hulk isn't a bad cartoon. It's a bad modern Greek tragedy. It's a swing at the moon that looks (and smells) like green cheese.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A comic-book superhero has seldom squandered so much screen time being conflicted about his heritage and destiny -- and I don't mean conflicted in a sexy, Wolverine-y, ''X-Men'' way, either; a big-budget comic-book adaptation has rarely felt so humorless and intellectually defensive about its own pulpy roots.

40
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The movie's real locus of anger must have been the director, Ang Lee, once he realized what an epic clod his computer wizards had wrought.
40
Film Threat
Mike Watt
Somewhere in the middle of The Hulk is a big, dumb, noisy movie trying desperately to get out.

40
Time
Richard Schickel
Lee must have thought he could work a similar magic on this clunking, clanking machine. But despite a few witty wipes and split-screen tricks, he fails. Hulk is no better than hulking.

38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
This messy, disappointing, self-important and utterly humorless version of the Marvel comic book character may be the toughest flick with a green protagonist to sit through since "The Grinch."

30
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Belabored, ostentatious, overlong behemoth.

30
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
The Hulk goes on for two hours and 20 minutes and there's not a stirring or exciting moment in it...At last, a comic-book movie that National Public Radio listeners can be proud to take their kids to see.

20
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The movie is bulky and inarticulate, leaving behind a trail of wreckage and incoherence.

0
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
In future Lee can best serve his versatility by never doing anything like this again.


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