THE HULK

Director: Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger ..., The Ice Storm, Sense & Sensibility)
Starring: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Eliott, Nick Nolte

Ang Lee is a supremely talented director. His early American films were all very nice, very personal stories about real characters. Then came the wonderful success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Unfortunately, he was probably too talented for this movie. He tried to turn a simple allegory about adolescent male anger into an operatic saga where the sins of the father pass down to the son and the fate of the world is at stake. Succinctly put, he failed. The story wasn't particularly interesting. The effects and action weren't particularly interesting. The characters weren't particularly intersting. None of the above was really awful, it just wasn't anything like compelling. A complete ho-hum of a film.

Standouts: I can't think of anything that really stood out. Jennifer Connelly's cute, I guess.
Blowouts: Most everything. At least, nothing really came together.

Grade: D+