Hulk (2003)

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Acclaimed Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee turns his masterful eye to adapting the classic Marvel Comics character for the big screen. (Universal Pictures)

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Directed By: Ang Lee

Written By: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, James Schamus, Michael France

Starring: Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, Stan Lee, Josh Lucas, Jennifer Connelly, Eric Bana, Celia Weston, Cara Buono, Daniel Dae Kim, Kirk B.R. Woller, Paul Kersey, Todd Tesen

Genres: Drama, Sci-fi, Fantasy, Action

Franchise: Hulk

Country: USA

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Stars	User	Rating
8	Paxton	47 _16th
Warning! This review is only for people that have seen the movie. Unless you've watched Ang Lee's effort or been witness to Bana's and Connelly's screen presence, you won't be able to relate to what it is this review is trying to say. Please come back if you do watch it. For those of you that have seen it, here's the review: This movie is terrible.
8	BeeDub	75 _29th
I respect what Ang Lee was going for here, but it didn't come together the way it should have. Some of the action scenes are OK (especially in the desert), and the cast does what they can, but the comic book panels are annoying and gimmicky, the script is muddled, and... Hulk dogs?
4	MartinTeller	49 _8th
Way boring. The comic book stylizations that Ang Lee inserts were cool... the first one or two dozen times. After that it was just gimmicky. Hulk looked pretty fake, too.
4	jimmynmu	45 _28th
It was tough making it all the way through this one. Definatley something I didn't expect when seeing a comic book movie. Also the Hulk looked really bad.
4	djross	20 _3rd
This movie clearly has pretensions to "probe deeply" into the character of the eponymous hero. From the moment the "hulk" first appears, however, the film descends to a point which is beyond silly. In the end, it is nearly unwatchably tedious.
4	Grit	6 _4th
A little bit of a disaster really, this take on Hulk rips the heart out of the character of the Marvel comics. There is no fun in an invincible superhero and this proves that to be true. All flash and no substance.
4	juntakinte99	88 _78th
Ang is great at showing heroes facing private turmoil with a stoic public face. He does that here as an adult child confronts his upbringing's demons. It hits the fanboy notes with an amazing title sequence, hypnotic music score, comic panel split screens, and perhaps the best Bruce Banner performance. And it’s fun--especially the city chase & The Right Stuff airplane fall. It only missteps via an Every Female Scientist In An Action Movie character. The most underrated comic book flick ever.
4	Dakota99	5 _44th
Maybe I let this get away with too much, Hulk really isn't that bad to me. The affects aren't anything to write home about, the story can be very slow, and the movie is quite long, but it's fine to me. Eric Bana is solid, and I do think some of the scientific stuff is interesting, and when Hulk does appear he is actually fun to watch. Nothing here overly stands out by any means, the film hasn't aged well, but by all means I think this is a average movie.
3	Pickpocket	0 _4th
Accomplishes something that almost no superhero movies have ever done: boring the audience to death. Spiderman 3 sucked but at least it wasn't a total snooze. The acting, action, and script are just awful. Avoid this trash.
3	Ytadel	4 _43rd
HULK SMASH SCREENWRITING! HULK SMASH COHERENT NARRATIVE!
3	BillyShears	50 _21st
HULK MAD HULK SMASH HULK BORING
2	cellophane	85 _56th
A movie that gets a lot of unjust hate, The Hulk is an artful superhero film.
2	megladon8	85 _84th
A powerful an greatly realized drama that was incorrectly marketed as an actioner; one of Ang Lee's best, and one of the best of the recent comic book movie craze.
2	joseywales	40 _16th
All I remember about this trainwreck is Hulk punching that mutated dog right in it's doggyballs.
2	begoniabol	27 _28th
A ridiculously bad made film, with crappy editing, predictable plot and oh God the ending... And what's the deal with his shorts? Sometimes they stay off after the change back, and sometimes conveniently stay on. Shorts, please make up your goddamn mind what you do with yourself.
2	Melvin Smif	25 _28th
I hate mixing CGI with live action, it almost always looks bad. The story wasn't too bad but it lost me completly at the end. The best part of this movie was when a Jehova's Witness showed up at my door and my brother cranked the volume on the explosion scenes so much the Jehova's Witness and I couldn't hear each other.
2	omgfridge	0 _1st
Oh, how I hated this film.
2	nauru	0 _0th
Horribly directed, horribly edited, horribly acted. The style of the film completely ruins any enjoyment one may have had, with split-screens every five seconds and idiotic transitions interspersed randomly for no good reason. The effects are awful, the whole thing is extremely tedious and overall this is probably the most boring superhero film ever made.
2	mwgerb	20 _8th
The scripting is awful, the direction is gimmicky, and the acting is overdone. Ang Lee attempts to create a deep, meaningful story, but it doesn't create any real character connections or risk delving into something truly dark or pay any heed to realism, and that's why it fails on multiple levels.
2	chmul_cr0n	81 _92nd
Never expected this to be a character piece. And it's a really good one, too. Love the action and the cgi.
1	fudgieb	85 _55th
Saw it twice in the theaters and thought that it was a worthy adaptation of comic. Don't really understand why so many hated it.
1	ssmodk	95 _95th
Severly underrated character study and drama in the Marvel hybridization of Frankenstein's monster and Mr. Hyde. It allows plot to come before action, likely leading many viewers to wonder why they bothered watching it. But for the patient and intelligent viewer, the best superhero movie released to date.
1	Pieridae	70 _13th
The movie was OK but with all the hype that led up to it, one was expecting something far better.
1	kdsmooth	91 _83rd
the bomb, ending could have been better
1	doctor7	62 _41st
While the "comic-book-like" cinematography was used well in certain places most of the time it felt like far more of a gimmick rather than properly planned. It's still a good film and above the average action movie but honestly not by a whole lot.
1	ServantDagon	83 _60th
This is really an underrated superhero character study. It's just as silly as Batman Begins, people!
1	MadMan	75 _27th
Solid enough until that messy final act.
1	wayofthegun	30 _3rd
Don't worry Ang, Brokeback Mountain is right around the corner.
1	amberlita	65 _26th
i must be missing the great commentary on children and their relationships to their parents. i just thought the film was "meh" aside from how much i love Jennifer Connelly and especially love Eric Bana.
1	Perrin2534	30 _7th
One of Marvel's screw ups.
1	ExplodingBoy	89 _83rd
If you're going into this expecting The Hulk running around smashing shit for two hours, you are going to be severely disappointed. Not that there's no smashing, but the film focuses more on a study of his psychological state, and how it translates into is being the Hulk.
1	Harmonica	57 _18th
Not one of the good comic book films.
1	Kavu	58 _30th
Bana could be better and some of the plot and dialogue is totally off, but the action saves a lot.
1	BattleToad	20 _3rd
This is exactly what comic book movies need to not be. The visual effects were satisfying, but the movie doesn't make any sense. The plot isn't only bad; it's annoying. "Hulk smash!" basically sums up the film, until the completely strange ending. I wish someone had smashed Ang Lee before he got away with making this big green {expletive deleted} of a movie. Total crap!
1	lachapelle	75 _49th
Highly underrated flick. Ang Lee brings this comic book to life with all the style and flair of a comic book. Not the best comic book adaptation, but very good.
1	lrampartl	14 _2nd
This was a concept that screamed for nonstop action and destruction. Instead, we got a film about human emotion - and a very poor one at that. The 15 minutes of action is great, the other 2 hours is horrible. Lighting is awful.
1	ikeboywonder	1 _11th
walked out of the theatre of a free movie, nuff said
1	cagedwisdom	0 _4th
Morbidly bad, but it IS actually worth watching for the incredible amount of laughs you'll get from the incredibly, incredibly bad (I'm understating it) comic-panel-look they try to go for for one of the very, very long scenes. First time I watched it I forced myself through it in agony. Second time I did it vaulintarily, and I was seriously laughing the entire time. It's hilariously bad.
1	Vince Leo (Qwipster's Movie Reviews)	40 _8th
"You're making me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." Oh yes, we would, Bruce! It's about the only time we do like you, as without the few scenes where we get to see "Hulk smash," this would have been the most bloated, boring movie ever to have been graced with $120 million dollar budget. [Full Review]
1	mindenhancer	75 _32nd
Not a bad movie, just didn't live up to the hype. Word of mouth killed it soon after. I personally enjoyed it. Ang Lee really did drag it out though. I liked the comic book style that came through in it, and the special effects kicked ass.
1	MJVmovieMan	50 _20th
Ang Lee doesn't quite butcher this, but he makes one odd-duck film that fans of the Hulk surely wouldn't approve of. The split-screens and plot structure are all over the place, and very stressful.
1	Mentaculus	72 _57th
With Hulk, Ang Lee took the comic book and tried to make pop art, with mixed results ending on the higher end of the good/crap spectrum. I don't care what people say, this is actually a pretty smart film (would you call Norton's Hulk more than popcorn fodder?), well worth watching multiple times although, admittedly, it does have more 'Hulk brood' than 'Hulk smash'. The ending is obtuse, but at least the film does not insult its audience.
1	Boobjuice	12 _9th
I rarely walk out of a movie no matter how bad it is, but about an hour and 10 minutes into this dull, dragging film, a friend and I walked out and stole about $15 worth of cotton candy---hardly a fair compensation considering the grave emotional disturbance wrought by this film.
1	patabongo	52 _5th
Surely this concept is foolproof? A metric tonne of rampaging green muscle is unleashed by science. Destruction results. But no, this was truly dull and appalling. In the dictionary under the word "interminable".
1	cyrusx	93 _93rd
A lot of people hated this - it wasn't supposed to be another xmen movie - one has to consider it in the context of Ang Lee's other films. It's a lot like "Crouching Tiger..." - remember that if the moves seem a little too ballet-ish. It has really artful moments of calm, and the action set pieces are really visceral - people don't notice how really good the pacing of the action scenes are, the cuts of the camera, because they dislike the rest of the film, and how silly it is - granted, th
1	Jarmann	70 _41st
Eric Bana saves the day in a movie that didn't meet my expectations at least. Too little carnage and too much drama.
1	hellsditch	68 _19th
Quasi-commendable for trying to do something different. But "The Hulk" is not the character to approach cerebrally, in my opinion. Toss in a lame villain and the anti-charisma of Eric Bana and you're left with a big pile of something slightly less than mediocre.
1	phaedrus	65 _57th
Above-average comic book movie.
1	andayb	30 _7th
i had heard that this movie was 'misunderstood' and Lee actually tried something different, and people didn't buy it. nope. i think it's understood quite well. lee didn't try anything, he just cashed the check and left the production to the studio, who relied on the most stupid script and the not quite ready cgi to sail this thing through. the editing and the pacing is also terrible, which permeates into acting as well. cgi hulk is more emotive than eric bana.
1	Vandelay1	52 _53rd
okay movie
1	Jeb	25 _16th
Ang Lee was not the right guy for the job. The acting is mediocre and Hulk looks horrible. The first half is all talk and no action. But while we do get action in the second half, it's horrible. The effects are somewhat cartoony too, so of them could even be put in a video game. Marvel fans, skip out on this snoozefest.
1	Obdurate	55 _17th
I thought it would be interesting to finally view this in a world where we are so entrenched in the MCU. I kinda wish they would do this film now with different people because there's a great movie buried underneath the silliness (hulk dogs) and gimmicky comic book panelling. The attempt at making a more psychological comic book movie is ambitious and could be good, but it's really dull here. It just plods along. Action is mostly lame, but occasionally decent. More interesting as an experiment.
1	INDYATMN	72 _29th
When Hulk starts leaping & fighting the army it's beautiful to look at but there's no suspense bc there are no civilian lives at stake & no doubt Hulk will smash tanks. Worse, there's no great love for him to return to since Betty broke up w/ him. So we're left w/ a Freudian drama about a passive protagonist's childhood trauma & the dangers of repression which equals a lot of unengaging metaphors. There are also times Lee gets too cartoony. Talbot's villainy is over the top & a Hulk poodle? WTF?
1	Neonman	42 _4th
Horrid action, totally boring, and completely fails at capturing the comic-book style it aims for. Yawn!
1	e_e	50 _55th
Better than you think, one of the more intelligent blockbusters.
1	Peewee	91 _70th
sweet
1	Nearphotison	57 _33rd
I don't think this film was as bad as most people say, but it was pretty darn close. A confusing plot, plus unconvincing CG and almost no action. Not even a recognizeable villain for Hulk to battle.
1	iCasp	10 _12th
Haha.. what a mess!
1	wccarroll	70 _43rd
Pretty less-than-memorable. Not as offensively bad as most claim.
1	HyphenateMe	58 _29th
It's not a bad movie, per say, it's just really boring. I'm not sure how you can turn a movie about a beast who crushes things and battles tanks boring, but they did it.
1	ScragglyDave	4 _4th
This was a horrible movie. And my roommate got a parking ticket when we went to see it. Horrible all around!
1	die_nacht	0 _0th
garbage day
1	Sandwichlord	0 _0th
So horrific I vow never to let any of my friends lay eyes on this.
1	marc01	83 _66th
Misunderstood. Underrated.
1	getmoney	63 _20th
This is kind of a bad movie. But it's a noble failure, at least. Better than Iron Man 2.
1	Van Baggio	16 _0th
A complete lesson on how-to-not-make-a-movie-based-on-comics and reaches the gates of impossibility making everyone sleepy with a character like Hulk... Yeah Ang Lee, you already were a little better...
1	Seryxa	25 _43rd
Overly serious attempt to turn a comic-book creation into a symbol of Oedipal suffering; Lee's ambition is not helped by the obviously computer-generated Hulk, apart from one joyous moment when he angrily bounces off into the distance.
1	ABUNCHOFCATS	15 _3rd
How can someone who made Crouching Tiger make a movie this utterly bad?
1	Lolocaust	40 _14th
Hulk bores!
1	johnshaft	80 _70th
Only the last hour is particularly action-packed, but it is intelligent and well thought out. The characterization was surprisingly effective, thus adding to the effect of the action near the end of the movie.
1	SirStuckey	65 _45th
I don't hate it like everyone else seems to, in fact I kind of like it. I appreciate the fact that it tried to tell an actual story even if it didn't always work.I think it looks good most of the time. I liked Bana and Connelly in the main roles and Elliot as the antagonist. Maybe I'm giving it more than it's due, but I still think the movie is decent.
1	Anselmi86	36 _10th
Ang Lee, what in the hell did you do to this thing?
1	Hutzovinian	50 _21st
I liked when the movie was over
1	Okkervil	40 _29th
In the words of Stewart Lee..."Don't make me Ang Lee, you wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee!" A noble, but poorly executed attempt to add substance to the genre that unfortunately falls flat. Pretty bad, but not hate worthy.
1	Kruz01	10 _5th
Dear god why and how did this get a green light?
1	JensAltmann	25 _13th
Bad script, bad SFX, and the wrong director for this project. Good cast, though. The first half hour of the movie was made redundant by the fact that the rest of it was about Banner finding out about it. And was anyone able to actually make out, visually, what happened during the showdown?
1	kitchen867	75 _84th
I like this Hulk movie :(
1	turpie	20 _3rd
Holy crap this was boring.
1	ratinenj	72 _12th
I wanted to like this film since I read Hulk comics as a child but it's a messy failure. The action scenes are not memorable since the film does not have a clear enemy Hulk could fight against. Ang Lee tries to build a story about the suffering of the main character and his problems but the audience would like to see more of Hulk destroying and fighting against something more than mutated dogs. I think Ang Lee missed the point of the superhero/thing film altogether.
1	DavidBlast	65 _59th
Complicated: It's one of those movies that everyone should see, but noone will ever really enjoy.
1	Ray	15 _11th
Call me crazy, but when I watch a film adaptation of a Marvel Comics character that turns huge, green and near invincible when angry I expect things to happen. In this film, very little does. It plods on, and on, and on, and leaves you constantly hanging. It eventually delivers some excitement, but it's badly filmed and dull anyway. I see what Ang Lee was trying to achieve, and perhaps with the right cast and a larger budget it would have worked, but as it stands this is a complete failure.
1	woodoo	85 _63rd
Overlong, but still a favorite. Very inspired stunt casting of Nick Nolte and has the best action sequence (the desert sequence) in of any superhero movie.
1	AndrewD	45 _27th
Ang Lee only failure to date.
1	HanekeSolo	80 _36th
I think this film got a bad rap. It failed a lot, but it succeeded at times.
1	kaanbalci	100 _89th
my favorite HULK MOVIE!
1	Broodfath3r	0 _0th
One of the worst movies i had ever seen.... it was so bad that it made me cringe and feel guilty for watching it. The special effects were fucking terrible and cheesy and the plot was ridiculously dry. Are you serious? He hulks out and destroys the town.... end of movie.... holy Jesus what were they thinking? how did this make it past the approval board.
1	Matthew Parkinson (CineMarter)	40 _31st
I didn't have a good time with Hulk. It's not a complete waste, as it does venture into territory that some superhero films completely neglect -- in this case, the psyche of its hero -- but it's often boring and runs out of ideas way before it is ready to finish. We almost get more of the Hulk jumping around in the desert than we do of him smashing things, and I guess if that's fun for you to watch, then you'll have a field day. I found it beautiful, but only for the first time.
1	hellboy76	56 _21st
Not as terrible as I thought it would be, but not good. The effects were not all that great, the story a bit boring, and the ending so shockingly stupid it hurts.
1	glumpy_99	24 _2nd
An utter misfire; mystifying given the considerable talent on both sides of the camera - Lee tries to bring some high-end prestige to this comic book adaptation but pretentious, irritating gimmicks grow old fast (I imagine the controversial split-screens are designed to emulate comic book panels). Badly performed by all and sundry; Elliott and Nolte seem to be competing for who can be the shoutiest, but at least they are present, compared to Bana and Connelly's complete disengagement.
1	guy piranha	60 _40th
Although i like bana and the comic-like transitions, it's still not a good movie by a long shot. Except for when connelly is on screen...damn, that is one beautiful woman. She can soothe me any day, i don't care if i'm green, blue or ultraviolet.
1	GreatScott85	50 _16th
Despite some valiant efforts and clear sense of ambition, Ang Lee's Hulk ultimately fails to soar, falling prey to a slow, ponderous pace, some very stupid actions scenes (Hulk dogs? Really?), and characters that lack much personality or definition.
1	paleAvenger	40 _4th
Ang Lee tries to make the movie look like a comic book with bright colors and visually abrasive editing... and it just looks terrible. Add bad writing and a nearly incoherent plot about daddy issues, and you're left with this piece of garbage.
1	moviemanwill	40 _13th
So melodramatic.
1	myfavchords	71 _30th
This movie is not perfect and it certainly is different than the usual superhero movie. The film uses a lot of computer graphics for the Hulk and it has an interesting cast. Overall I recommend this movie
1	talonmalon	45 _13th
This movie made a valiant effort to explore the Hulk's character a little beyond just smashing everything... But with poor results. Even when I first saw this as a child, I found it to be just boring.
1	rttntomatoes	62 _34th
While Ang Lee's ambitious film earns marks for style and an attempt at dramatic depth, there's ultimately too much talking and not enough smashing.
1	hakkanarejo	95 _63rd
The story opens with Bruce Banner's father, Dr. David Banner, performing experiments to enhance cellular regeneration in 1966. Working at the appropriately named "Desert Base," Banner is reporting to a Major Ross, who orders the experiments to end with animal trials. In true Dr. McCoy fashion, Banner is so convinced of his work that he tries it on himself. When Banner's wife announces she's pregnant, panic begins to set it. Has this self-inflicted genetic mutation passed to his child?
1	matthewsq	9 _88th
Just love the hulk character.
1	luord	66 _59th
I like it. Bana and Connelly are great. Don't know what happened to Lee, he made too many questionable choices.
1	Ametrine	1 _1st
I think this one was harder to get through than Captain America '90. Ang Lee had a vision and stuck with it, but it really doesn't work and has only become worse with age. The only positive I can say is that Sam Elliott was perfectly cast.
1	Revan007	12 _0th
Before Wolverine Origins, there was Hulk. While Eric Bana wasn't a bad choice for Bruce Banner in theory, his acting was not only terrible in this movie, but the plot was egregiously ridiculous and poorly thrown together. It's shocking this movie was even made.

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