If there was ever a wrong director for a movie, this is it. He takes this entire movie way too seriously. At least with Spiderman and X-Men the directors knew that when translating an unrealistic comic book to a movie with actual actors you must have some sense of humor (and they did it well). The actors in this movie are forced to deliver their lines with such seriousness in tone and expression that this in itself is almost humorous. This movie badly needs to lighten up.
Right from the start we are thrust full speed into a very slow paced movie. It takes around 45 minutes of tedious, unnecessary dialogs before we even get the change to glimpse the Hulk himself. And it seems that even the scenes with the Hulk are void of any true action. I did not mind the CGI, it's more of the character that bothered me. He is by no means raging, but rather seems quite passionate in many scenes. And the action sequences are merely a repetition of a massive amounts of Army machinery hopelessly shooting everything possible at a running green Gumby.
Jennifer Connelly's motive is never really explained or clear. She loves him, yet she seems to always be the reason he gets captured. The movie's dialog is made up entirely of characters either screaming or whispering, no one seems to understand the beauty of a normally spoken conversation.
The special effects are completely overdone. With the exception of maybe a few frames of this movie, which they probably forgot to cut, every camera shot of people speaking is zoomed into a head shot so close that the actors might as well be sitting in a room talking into a microphone with no scenery around them. Almost every time the scene changes it fades into the next scene using a fade effect you might find built into a consumer camcorder (yes, this is utterly overdone). The few scene changes that lack this effect are graced with flashy, completely pointless computer graphics rapidly flying through the screen.
The limited minutes in this movie that are not occupied by people talking through pages of pointless, dragged-out script are riddled with moving and multiplying camera angles. It usually shows the same picture at 3-5 different camera angles at once, and at some points ventures into displaying multiple scenes on the screen simultaneously. Is this an attempt to make the movie appear more comicbookish? They certainly fail to accomplish that goal. It does, however, become quite irritating and very dizzying to attempt to follow. It reminded me of those annoying pop-up windows you get on some Internet websites, only these windows kept moving.
With so much talking and dialog you would think a movie over two hours in length would include some character development. On the contrary, throughout the entire movie there is not a single character that you will care about. The plot is confusing, overdone and overly complex in many respects, and much longer than it had to be (and should have been).
If you have not seen this movie yet and still feel a need to put in the time, effort and money it requires, wait until it comes out on DVD. This way you could skip to the only two action sequences watch-worthy - the tanks in the dessert and the mutated dogs. To see this movie in a theater you will have to endure many slow, long, un-fulfilling dialogs that will test your ability to stay awake.
Right from the start we are thrust full speed into a very slow paced movie. It takes around 45 minutes of tedious, unnecessary dialogs before we even get the change to glimpse the Hulk himself. And it seems that even the scenes with the Hulk are void of any true action. I did not mind the CGI, it's more of the character that bothered me. He is by no means raging, but rather seems quite passionate in many scenes. And the action sequences are merely a repetition of a massive amounts of Army machinery hopelessly shooting everything possible at a running green Gumby.
Jennifer Connelly's motive is never really explained or clear. She loves him, yet she seems to always be the reason he gets captured. The movie's dialog is made up entirely of characters either screaming or whispering, no one seems to understand the beauty of a normally spoken conversation.
The special effects are completely overdone. With the exception of maybe a few frames of this movie, which they probably forgot to cut, every camera shot of people speaking is zoomed into a head shot so close that the actors might as well be sitting in a room talking into a microphone with no scenery around them. Almost every time the scene changes it fades into the next scene using a fade effect you might find built into a consumer camcorder (yes, this is utterly overdone). The few scene changes that lack this effect are graced with flashy, completely pointless computer graphics rapidly flying through the screen.
The limited minutes in this movie that are not occupied by people talking through pages of pointless, dragged-out script are riddled with moving and multiplying camera angles. It usually shows the same picture at 3-5 different camera angles at once, and at some points ventures into displaying multiple scenes on the screen simultaneously. Is this an attempt to make the movie appear more comicbookish? They certainly fail to accomplish that goal. It does, however, become quite irritating and very dizzying to attempt to follow. It reminded me of those annoying pop-up windows you get on some Internet websites, only these windows kept moving.
With so much talking and dialog you would think a movie over two hours in length would include some character development. On the contrary, throughout the entire movie there is not a single character that you will care about. The plot is confusing, overdone and overly complex in many respects, and much longer than it had to be (and should have been).
If you have not seen this movie yet and still feel a need to put in the time, effort and money it requires, wait until it comes out on DVD. This way you could skip to the only two action sequences watch-worthy - the tanks in the dessert and the mutated dogs. To see this movie in a theater you will have to endure many slow, long, un-fulfilling dialogs that will test your ability to stay awake.