Hulk

Hulk

When the Hulk gets angry, his movie gets good, so you wish he'd get angry more often. Accepting this challenge after the triumphant Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, director Ang Lee has created an ambitious film, based on the Marvel comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, that succeeds as a cautionary tale about mad science and traumatized children coping with legacies of pain. That's the Hulk's problem: After accidental exposure to gamma radiation, scientist Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) turns into the huge, green, and indestructible Hulk when provoked, and repressed childhood memories fuel his fury. Hobbled by the obligatory "origin story" (to acquaint neophytes with the character's Jekyll-and-Hyde-ish fate), there's room for little else in a sluggish film that struggles to reconcile Lee's stylistic flair (evident in his visual interpretation of comic-book technique) with the razzle-dazzle of a megabudget franchise. What's good is good (Jennifer Connelly essentially echoes her role from A Beautiful Mind, and Nick Nolte is righteously tormented as Banner's father), but the movie's schizoid intentions remain largely unclear. --Jeff Shannon

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Ang Lee
Production: Universal Pictures
  3 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
62%
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:
2003
138
$132,122,995
Website
3,058 Views
Unleash the hero within.
Unleash the fury!
Rage. Power. Freedom.

Betty Ross:
We're buried out here in the middle of nowhere. How long are you going to keep him sedated?

General Ross:
For the rest of his natural life, if I have to.

Betty Ross:
You said I could trust you.

General Ross:
I'm your father. You can trust me to do what I think is right, not what you think you want.

Betty Ross:
He is a human being.

General Ross:
Well, he is also something else. Suppose he gets out, has one of his little mood swings in a populated area.

Betty Ross:
Yes, I'm aware of the potential danger. I'm also aware that he saved my life.

General Ross:
Yeah, from a mutant French poodle. I'm indebted to him for that. He also put three men in a hospital and Talbot's barely walking! I mean, what do you want me to do?!

Betty Ross:
I want you to help him! Why is he such a threat to you?

General Ross:
Because I know what he comes from! He is his father's son, every last molecule of him! He says he doesn't know his father, but he's working in the same exact goddamn field his father did! So, either he's lying or it's something worse, that he's-

Betty Ross:
What? Predestined to follow on his father's footsteps?

General Ross:
I was going to say "damned".

Betty Ross:
Of course you were, but I'm a scientist. As a scientist, I believe we can figure this out and he can be helped.

General Ross:
I know you do. Whether you know or care, I've got a lot of pride in what you've done, but this is too big for you.

Betty Ross:
Look, I know the government thinks they have a weapon on their hands, otherwise he'd be dead by now. They can probe and prod all they want. In the meanwhile, just let me try to help him. Nobody knows him better than I do. What did David Banner do to him?

Bruce Banner:
I should have killed you.

David Banner:
Yeah? I should have killed you.

Bruce Banner:
I wish you had. I saw her last night. Saw her face. Brown hair, brown eyes. She smiled at me. She reached down and kissed my cheek. I can almost remember a smell. It was like desert flowers.

David Banner:
Her favorite perfume.

Bruce Banner:
It was my mother, and I don't even know her name.

David Banner:
It's alright, son. Go ahead and cry. Go ahead and cry. Cry. Crying will do you good.

Bruce Banner:
Don't touch me! Maybe, once, you're my father. But, you're not now and you never will be.

David Banner:
Oh, is that so? Well, I've got news for you. I didn't come here to see you. I came here to see my son. My real son. The one inside of you. You're nothing but a superficial shell, a husk of flimsy consciousness ready to be torn off at a moment's notice.

Bruce Banner:
You can think what you like! I don't care, just go!

David Banner:
No, son. Listen to me. I found a cure... for me. My cells can transform, too. Absorb enormous amounts of energy. But, unlike you, they're unstable. Son, I need your strength. I gave you life, now you must give it back to me! Only a million times more radiant, more powerful!

Bruce Banner:
Stop!

David Banner:
"STOP" WHAT? "STOP" WHAT?! Think about all those men out there, in their uniforms! Barking and swallowing orders! Inflicting their petty rule over the entire globe! Think of all the harm they've done! To you! To me! To humanity! And know this, that we can make them, and their flags, and their anthems, and their governments disappear! In a flash! You and me!

Bruce Banner:
I'd rather die!

David Banner:
Oh, that's your answer. And indeed you shall die. And be reborn a hero! Of the kind that walked the Earth long before the pale religions of civilization infected humanity's soul!

Bruce Banner:
GO!

David Banner:
Stop your bawling, you weak little speck of human trash. [David stands up and grabs the cable] I'll go! You just watch me go!

General Ross:
Hit it!


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