Cast: A
Plot: A
Special Effects/Stunts: A+
Similarity to Comic: B-
Director: Louis Leterrier
Comic Company: Marvel
Stars: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth
Rating: PG-13
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Well if any of the other Avengers movies are this good we're in for a real treat. This movie has it all- action, love, angry giant monsters, what more could you ask for?
The Good: As usual with the Marvel movies the cast was superb. Edward Norton was probably the perfect person to cast for Bruce Banner. His experience in the roles he played in 'Fight Club' and 'American History X' gave him the calm collected exterior he needed to portray along with the toughness it would take to keep yourself from getting angry in certain situations. Liv Tyler was beautiful and showed more than one emotion which is more than I was expecting from her. The General played his role well and Tim Roth did an excellent job as an obsessive, aggressive, and arrogant Emil Blonsky. The cast was relatively small, which is probably why they could afford such talent, it sure paid off though. Even good old Lou Ferrigno made an appearance as a security guard.
I can't say enough about the special effects and CGI in this movie. They obviously spent a good deal of the budget on computer imagery but didn't waste it on landscapes or cars, instead they put it all into the Hulk, making him the best looking green beast I've ever seen in hi-def. The stunts were not only well done visually, but they were creative as well, one of the most awesome things I've ever seen in a movie was the part at the end when the Hulk used two cars like boxing gloves as he fought the monster Emil.
The Bad: Not much to say here, it was too short maybe? I could have happily sat through another hour of this movie to be honest. I guess I should get down to the nitty gritty though, I didn't like the fact that the Hulk could take grenades the whole movie. He could take a bunch of little bullets maybe, but not a grenade, he's still a mammal, still has warm soft flesh, it should for all intensive purposes blow right off. Also on that note, why is it he could take a grenade but then a couple wimpy sonic cannons almost take him out? His ears are his weakness now? He spends the entire movie smashing cars and being shot at by .50 cals and a little noise brings him to his knees?
How come when the Hulk transforms all of his clothes rip off except his pants? I mean I get it, that's inappropriate, but it doesn't make sense to me how his cotton shirts tear right off but his denim jeans expand to no end. I suppose that's a little nit-picky, but really there aren't a lot of bad things about this movie.
The Interesting: His blood falls into one of the soda bottles in the factory and somehow manages to not get discovered and gets shipped out. The drink is then consumed by none other than Stan Lee and all that happens is his character falls over. Did he die? Did he become an elderly Hulk? We don't know, it is never explained, but gosh dar it I want it to be!
Mr. Blue helps Bruce throughout the movie in trying to cure his affliction. At one point Mr. Blue is able to suppress one episode. Only one. Why didn't the military use that as a weapon against the Hulk instead of killing (?) Mr. Blue after forcing him to create another Hullk-like monster? When Mr. Blue creates the new monster the formula that created him drips onto his head and makes it start to bubble. Does it kill him? Does he turn into another Hulk monster? We don't know! The open ends needed to be taken care of a little better in this movie.
Conclusion: Definitely one of my top five superhero movies of all time. Despite the little things wrong with it, the real disservice to the viewers in this one is that they never managed to make a sequel with Edward Norton.
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