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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 |
| 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 |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 28, 2003 Video: October 28, 2003 Theatrical: June 20, 2003 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 137 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 5.0 (out of 10) based on 129 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Aaron F. gave it a9:
This movie was great. It had a good storyline, good action, good drama, good everything. The dog fight scene could have been a liitle better but overall it was Great!
C. H. gave it a1:
You've got to be kidding.
[Anonymous] gave it an8:
Brave and massively underrated.
Tonydannie gave it a9:
One of the best comic book adaptations out there. Eric bana was perfectly cast on this part and Nick Nolte blows me away with his acting in this movie!(And I hate Nick Nolte) Jennifer Connely is as pretty as she can ever be and sam elliot is what is expected of him. The story is great and the music is outstanding. Once again danny Elfman proves he is the king of Comic book film scores. The visual effects seem like they are not finish though and thats why i I am docking it a point. hulk just looks too fake. But hey so did Superman and this I can forgive! Ang Lee delivers a great story with amazing action sequences.
Anson G. gave it a1:
Worse and nothin special about this movie. Hulk is the worse and terrible i ever seen. Even this movie and cartoon was famous from US, but Ang Lee was mistaken to create this movie. Ok, here i disspointment of this movie. 1st, the lovers dont get on. 2nd, when hulk fighting against tank and helicopter comanche, doesnt explode at all, it just crash and trash only. For the kids, yes, they like to see that. I doubt Eric Bana was wrong to choose as character Hulk. This movie doesnt make any sense at all and very boring. If u havent watch this, i advise u dont.
film is dead gave it a2:
What the hell was Ang Lee thinking? How dare he film the equivalent of a random, delirious fart and release it bigtime? So laughably misguided it's almost tragic, yet not even brimming with enough written, performed and filmmaking ineptitude for said ineptitude to even matter. Eric Banal, Josh Puke-ass and a beyond slumming Nick Nolte are pathetically out of their acting 'league', while J.-Co and Sam Elliott's efforts to salvage this DOA wreck are in obvious and pitiful vain. Oh yeah, HULK is terrible, all right, and yet better than all of the Hollywood crapola I saw this summer. Next to absolute sh..fests like War of the Worlds and Revenge of the Sith, its own hideously childish effects are anything but! How loud a volume do y'all think that speaks?
Droog gave it a2:
I avoided this movie when it hit the theaters a few years back, but my library had a copy when I was browsing the shelves this afternoon, so I figured what the heck. Wow. This is one of the worst movies made in the past 5 years, and definitely one of the worst superhero movies ever made. The special effects are, in a word, awful. The Hulk looks like a digitally-animated booger. And far too many of the action scenes take place in the dark. Maybe it was just my TV, but I couldn't see anything happening (ie. the Hulk's fight with the mutant dogs is 5 minutes of barking and total darkness. But the worse transgression is the plot, which totally overcomplicates Bruce Banner's narrative history. The beauty of the comic-book Hulk is his simplicity. He is based on the Jekyll & Hyde archetype, brilliant and weak as Bruce Banner, dumb and unstoppable as the Hulk. The Hulk taps into our inner child, the angry id of anyone who has ever been beaten up or been stepped on and has wished for vengeance. But by throwing in all the extra shenanigans of repressed memories, Oedipus complex, and Foucaltean rantings about power, this movie detaches itself from anything resembling personal experience and becomes a self-involved, CGI monstrosity.

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