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| DIRECTED BY |
| Ang Lee
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| STARRING |
| Eric Bana |
| Jennifer Connelly |
| Sam Elliott |
| Josh Lucas |
| Nick Nolte |
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The film�s greatest quality (until it gets monotonous, anyway) is its creation of a comic book-like appearance through hyper-kinetic, flashy, and imaginative editing. The storyline itself isn�t even all that bad and � until it gets hampered by clich�s and questionable character developments � it even makes some interesting statements concerning the devastating side effects that can result from misusing and mistreating scientific enigmas.
Before getting into my problems with this film, I�d just like to say that I loved how the one scene that we see of President amidst this whole helter skelter is (believe it or not) of him fishing! It really humored me that the screenwriters had to revert to this now-amazingly clich�d image. And � predictably � �Hulk� just becomes another one of those major-budget blockbusters where the military and the government are both depicted quite embarrassingly and unbelievably. And perhaps the thing that irked me most about this film is yet another clich� � our imperiled protagonist�s love interest (Connelly) is depicted as the lone character who has the common sense of humanity to draw the bloodthirsty military out of their ignorance and into the realization that what they�re doing is wrong.
Nick Nolte does a pretty good job of showing us just how insane a man can go once he lets his passion become his obsession. But then that whole character just about goes haywire after we�re revealed just what Bruce�s �traumatizing childhood memory� was (it�s stupid.) As for what�s good � it�s hard to not respect that whole desert sequence with the Hulk making those tanks look like little Lego blocks by heaving them off into the distance, as well as the �road tremor� scenes. And those hardcore fans really should�ve given the filmmakers a break with that CGI uproar � the special effects are mostly quite well done.
Ang Lee, however, really should�ve realized that there is such a thing as �too many split screens.� Commonly the viewer is bombarded with more imagery than the average person can register at the same time. �Hulk� had the potential to be intellectually rewarding � it could�ve made some effective statements concerning scientific practices � but it ultimately just gets lost within its own jumble of clich�d flashiness.
