Hulk
Universal Pictures | Release Date: June 20, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
16
Negative:
5
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60
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
However nifty, Lee's Cubist gambit fails to capture the graphic tension that makes great comic-book art jump off the page and great pop movies jump off the screen with pow, zap and wow! Read full review
60
Washington PostDesson Thomson
In the end, we don't know what we're watching, an art-house superhero film or a computer-generated "King Kong." By trying to please both sensibilities, the filmmakers have pleased neither. Read full review
60
The New YorkerDavid Denby
Structurally a mess and unevenly made, but the first forty minutes or so are quite beautiful. [7 July 2003, p. 84]
60
Dallas ObserverBill Gallo
Some Marvel fans and die-hard devotees of Lou Ferrigno, the bodybuilder who played The Hulk on television (and who does a brief walk-on here), may find Ang Lee's whole enterprise grandiose and, given its not-always-successful attempt to fuse brains and brawn, a little bit silly. Read full review
60
Film ThreatClint Morris
Folks read comics for enjoyment, not to admire how well the pictures are drawn, and the same axiom can be directed here with audiences likely to admire the work that’s gone into this film -- rather than joyously enjoying the film itself. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
As this all plays out -- and basically segues into "King Kong" -- the movie wins its biggest gamble: its entirely computer-generated monster works. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
The main problem with The Hulk, really, is that there isn't enough Hulk in it. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
More thoughtful and pleasing to the eye than any blockbuster in recent memory, but its epic length comes without an epic reward. It's a slow ride to the same old place, nonstop action, accelerating in scale, culminating in the smirking promise of a sequel. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Nolte's exploding patriarch jacks up the story's antisocial wish fulfillment into a Nietzschean-anarchist's wet dream, but one can only vainly hope that the preordained sequel will head in that dastardly direction. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
The entirely computer-generated Hulk is a surprisingly expressive creation — it certainly gives a better performance than Connelly — but the action is late in coming and feels like a long set-up for the inevitable sequel. Read full review
50
USA TodayMike Clark
There's a fine line between darkness and glumness, one that "Spider-Man" bounced off buildings to avoid. The Hulk lumbers across it. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
To answer your first question: like a cross between Shrek, the Frankenstein monster, and a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot. Read full review
50
SlateDavid Edelstein
Unlike your average comic-book blockbuster, The Hulk isn't a bad cartoon. It's a bad modern Greek tragedy. It's a swing at the moon that looks (and smells) like green cheese. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
A comic-book superhero has seldom squandered so much screen time being conflicted about his heritage and destiny -- and I don't mean conflicted in a sexy, Wolverine-y, ''X-Men'' way, either; a big-budget comic-book adaptation has rarely felt so humorless and intellectually defensive about its own pulpy roots. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The movie's real locus of anger must have been the director, Ang Lee, once he realized what an epic clod his computer wizards had wrought.
40
TimeRichard Schickel
Lee must have thought he could work a similar magic on this clunking, clanking machine. But despite a few witty wipes and split-screen tricks, he fails. Hulk is no better than hulking. Read full review
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