Art house director Ang Lee took on the ambitious task of making a summer popcorn flick with "Hulk". In my opinion, Lee has failed. He tries hard, damn hard to make Hulk into a "deep" film. Ang Lee is an art house director that makes movies for the intellectual minded moviegoer that prefer films with subtitles rather then watching action and quick editing. Lee's credits include "The Ice Storm" and "Sense and Sensibility. With the "Hulk", he brings the same art house feel to this movie, but it's totally wrong. Lee tries to make a deep film out of a very shallow premise. Come on now Ang, this is comic book material you are working with.
Hulk is not supposed to be an artsy, talky film. This should have been a comic book movie, not an attempt at deep Jungian psychodrama. Hulk SHOULD have been a movie that was a 12 year old boys wet dream. Hulk should have been loaded with "kewl explosions" and lots of fake looking CGI. The Hulk succeeds in having plenty of fake looking CGI. The CGI created Hulk is terrible and very cheesy looking. But the film has very few action sequences, and what it does have makes little sense. We don't even get to see the Hulk until 50 minutes into the movie. Then there's that WTF ending that leaves you scratching your head.
By summer blockbuster standards, Hulk is already a box office bomb. It only raked in about $60 million in U.S. domestic dollars for it's opening weekend. You just know that there will be plenty of bad word of mouth for a movie like this, and then add on the unavoidable drop in box office gross for the second and third weekend and you have another Godzilla or Waterworld type film.
By the way, I saw SEVERAL WALK OUTS. It was usually parents escorting their restless kids out of the theater. Don't take a child under 10 to this movie. There is no bad language, sex, or gory violence,....but the movie is WAY too SLOW and TALKY for children. Any kid under 10 will be bored out of their ass with this movie.
4/10
Hulk is not supposed to be an artsy, talky film. This should have been a comic book movie, not an attempt at deep Jungian psychodrama. Hulk SHOULD have been a movie that was a 12 year old boys wet dream. Hulk should have been loaded with "kewl explosions" and lots of fake looking CGI. The Hulk succeeds in having plenty of fake looking CGI. The CGI created Hulk is terrible and very cheesy looking. But the film has very few action sequences, and what it does have makes little sense. We don't even get to see the Hulk until 50 minutes into the movie. Then there's that WTF ending that leaves you scratching your head.
By summer blockbuster standards, Hulk is already a box office bomb. It only raked in about $60 million in U.S. domestic dollars for it's opening weekend. You just know that there will be plenty of bad word of mouth for a movie like this, and then add on the unavoidable drop in box office gross for the second and third weekend and you have another Godzilla or Waterworld type film.
By the way, I saw SEVERAL WALK OUTS. It was usually parents escorting their restless kids out of the theater. Don't take a child under 10 to this movie. There is no bad language, sex, or gory violence,....but the movie is WAY too SLOW and TALKY for children. Any kid under 10 will be bored out of their ass with this movie.
4/10