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Hulk (2003) 5.7
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Metascore: 54/100
Reviews: 1,431 user | 253 critic | 40 from Metacritic.com Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers an accident that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry. Director:Ang LeeWriters:Stan Lee (Marvel comic book character), Jack Kirby (Marvel comic book character), 4 more credits » |
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Storyline
Bruce Banner, a brilliant scientist with a cloudy past about his family, is involved in an accident in his laboratory causing him to become exposed to gamma radiation and Nanomeds (A tiny life-form that is supposed to heal wounds but has killed everything with which they have made contact). Confused and curious about his survival, Banner discovers that since the accident, whenever he becomes angry he transforms into a giant green monster destroying everything in sight in an act of fury. Bruce's mysterious past and the answer to why the radiation had this effect becomes revealed to him as his Birth Father David Banner intervenes with hopes to continue experimenting on him. Written by Séamus Hanly
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Rage. Power. Freedom. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, some disturbing images and brief partial nudity | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
20 June 2003 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Hulk See more »Box Office
Budget:
$137,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$2,798,209 (Italy) (29 August 2003)Gross:
$132,122,995 (USA) (19 September 2003)Company Credits
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Bruce Banner: You think you can live with it? Take it! TAKE IT ALL!
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Written by Marc Ferrari & Don Great
Performed by Don Great
Courtesy Marc Ferrari & Tinseltown Music
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Did You Know?
Trivia
When the project was in the works in the mid-1990s Johnny Depp was orignally the top choice to play Bruce Banner. Later on, Billy Crudup was Ang Lee's first choice to play Banner, but the actor declined the offer. Then Tom Cruise was offered the role of Bruce Banner, and then Steve Buscemi, David Duchovny and Jeff Goldblum were tested for the role before finally Eric Bana was cast. See more »Goofs
The breast pockets on Betty Ross's denim jacket switch from buttoned to unbuttoned between shots when she is confronted by David Banner in her house at night, and again, later, when she approaches the Hulk in downtown San Francisco. See more »Quotes
Dr. David Banner: [absorbing Hulk's energy] Sleep, Bruce, and dream forever. Struggle no more... and give me all of your power.Bruce Banner: You think you can live with it? Take it! TAKE IT ALL!
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Crazy Credits
SPOILER: The pages seen in the Marvel logo are from the Hulk comic 'Dogs of War', where the Hulk fights gamma-irradiated Hulk dogs, and thus foreshadowing this fight happening in the film. See more »Soundtracks
"Song for Classical Guitar"Written by Marc Ferrari & Don Great
Performed by Don Great
Courtesy Marc Ferrari & Tinseltown Music
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In a time where superhero movies seem to come from the assembly line and standards are (sadly) set already it is hard to find gems that really transcend these paradigms.
Ang Lee made a different approach to the superhero genre - and the people didn't like it! Why? After Daredevil, Blade, Elektra, Aeon Flux, League of extraordinary gentlemen, Spiderman (yes, i mean it), Spawn, etc etc there are many parallels you can draw between superhero films. And Hulk is the only thing that the others aren't: un-American! In a very rare exception we have a film here that doesn't have the arrogance and straight-forward story that we seem to have gotten used to too easily.
Spiderman (in particular) follows the EXACT steps you can read in a tutorial for film making - that may be neat to watch but leaves no space for surprises or artistic inputs. Ang Lee seems to have taken especially this thought very seriously and created a piece of art that the average pop-corn-formula-film-liking movie-goer may find hard to digest. No doubt, this movie is not made for assembly-line-film-lovers
- it is constructed very thoughtfully and goes beyond the
interpretation of a superhero. It plays with the chaos that erupts out of the events rather than glorifying another world saviour.There is no real good and evil, there only is an overcharge from both sides that don't know how to master the situation. The American movie-goer averagely wants black and white sides, a proud US-flag waving and a hero that saves the day (+nation and eventually the world, maybe even the universe). Nope, not in this one. While most of the other films establish superheroes as something that fits perfectly into our society, Hulk plays with the idea of what would happen if unknown uncontrolled untameable power surfaces - and that both sides act incredibly humane. At this point 80% of movie-consumers are out and 90% of movie-lovers come in (that number is small as we know).
I appreciated the rather unconventional storytelling, I admire the cast, I treasure the artistic hybrid of comic and reality and I enjoyed the portrayal of energy. Now, anyone who has seen Asian action films will find many parallels - the question is, are YOU ready to adapt to some of those standards when they are being poured over a western story? I was... And I was overwhelmed!
Anyone calling this movie the worst film they've ever seen (and there are quite few stating this) should stay with Spiderman, Transformers and Blade and get the same product over and over again (because they keep buying it). For my part I was grateful to see that there are people out there who get the chance to put a very distinctive stamp on their work making it unique and deep.
Five years later the audience won and an assembly line version was released, not as bad as some others but definitely not as creative and visionary as this one. Great job Ang!!!!!