The Incredible Hulk is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Universal Pictures, it is the second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It was directed by Louis Leterrier from a screenplay by Zak Penn, and stars Edward Norton as Bruce Banner alongside Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell, and Christina Cabot. In the film, Bruce Banner becomes the Hulk as an unwitting pawn in a military scheme to reinvigorate the “Super-Soldier” program through gamma radiation. Banner goes on the run from the military while attempting to cure himself of the Hulk.
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This is not an origin story, not really. It glosses over the origins in the opening sequences and moves right on to the aftermath. That is how we find Bruce Banner on the run from the government experiment that went wrong and created the Hulk. Banner is trying to find a way to cure it so it can’t be weaponized. The General has other ideas and plans however.
This leads to a chase throughout South and North America (with a cameo of our favorite comic book creator), and some other colorful characters that run afoul of Banner’s anger.
We all know how this turns out – Banner doesn’t find a cure, and the climax of the movie is an Abomination created by the government and one man’s thirst for power.
It’s not the best movie in the MCU line-up, but it does give character background to our favorite jolly green giant and his struggles to eventually become a superhero and not just a destroyer of Manhattan.
My Rating: ★ ★ ★
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