It's set in comic world and it abides by the natural laws governing comic world. From that perspective the movie worked for me.
It isn't an improvement to the 2003 Hulk effort, however.
The reason is, I think, firstly the Hulk himself. As a kid, the tv series Hulk used to scare the crap out of me, so much so I was too scared to have a poster of him in full Hulk raging mode in my bedroom. Not so with movie Hulk. True, we're talking about 20+ years later on, but still.
The CGI-ed movie Hulk is too sterile, too polished. Even though he's the star, you can't relate to him. In the tv series, scary to me as he was then, the Hulk came across rather as a social misfit, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, a person misunderstood. My question is, would a human Hulk have done a better job than the CGI Hulk?
I'm comparing movie Hulk to tv Hulk; I'm not familiar with comic book Hulk. Perhaps movie Hulk was more faithful to comic book Hulk.
Overall, it wasn't too bad, and I particularly liked the amazing shot of the shanty town in Brazil. Wow.
(Running time: 112 minutes)
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