This June, a hero shows his true colors. Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth and William Hurt finally smashes its way into the big screen. We finally got to watch it in the theater last night and we really enjoyed a lot.

MAIN CAST

Edward Norton as Bruce Banner
Liv Tyler as Elizabeth Ross
Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky
William Hurt as Gen. Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross
Tim Blake Nelson as Samuel Sterns

GENRE

Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

The Incredible Hulk begins with scientist Dr. Bruce Banner desperately searching for a cure to the gamma radiation that unleashes the force which turns him into a giant green monster under emotional stress. Make him mad and he’s going to squash you. Living in the unknown areas of Rio, cut off from a life he knew & the woman he loves, Elizabeth Ross, Banner struggles to seek a cure for his unique condition while keeping himself in the low key to evade his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross and Emil Blonsky.

Like any other super hero, the Hulk also finds his Achilles heel. Dr. Elizabeth Ross. Allowing himself to be totally secluded from her is hard but he needs to. Just keeping his eye on her on the newspaper articles about her triumphs. The story reveals a love that goes beyond any scientific experiment failure. As they find in each other that strength to keep on fighting. Even to the point of allowing himself to be sacrificed just to keep Betty safe. Call it love? Betty is the word. “Betty” - the only name I’ve heard the Hulk uttered for the entire duration of the movie. (Right?!) I was wondering how come Abomination could come up with such speeches as “Is that all you’ve got?..” and “You don’t deserve this power!”

The movie itself is filled with action packed scenes that intensifies when the brilliant and mysterious Dr. Blue (whom Mr. Green asked help from via encrypted chat server) turned into a useless twit responsible for creating the abominable Abomination. Blonsky is transformed into the green monster Abomination in pursuit of the Hulk. New York City comes to destruction as they war around the city. There’s just one thing that bothers me though, the roof top fight scene has a flaw. (That’s what I’ve observed though.) It seems to me that it all happened on the ground. Imagine how fast all those policemen and civilians got to swarm around the Hulk and the defeated Abomination. They must have missed that.

Good reigns over evil. Abomination gets defeated. Yet, Bruce Banner is still left to finding answers to his current condition as he counts his number of days without incident. For how long will he live a peaceful life as Bruce Banner? Or will he be that green creature he becomes all his life? Well, we are all waiting for the answer. As the movie ends with more twists as Mr. Tony Stark (Yes, IRONMAN.) comes up to General Ross to leave us all hanging.. “What would you say if I told you we’re putting a team together?” and he replies “Who’s “we”?