Welcome To Earth David

I just finished watching this movie starring Edward Norton, and I have to say that the movie producers on this film did what should have been done with the first hulk movie starring Eric Bana. I wasn’t quite sure a few months ago when I found out that Edward Norton was going to play the lead in this movie that he was going to be a good actor for the part. Don’t get me wrong, I love Edward Norton. I think my reasoning behind my thoughts on his role in this movie were based on the fact that I was expecting something much similar to the movie that starred Eric Bana. The two movies however are very different and I see now that Edward Norton was the right choice for this film.

In the beginning of the film there were many scenes that almost made me feel like I was a kid again sitting in front of the television watching old episodes of the hulk show with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno and I was kinda tickled at the scenes in the movie that showed Bill Bixby on television in a flash scene of The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father and Lou Ferrigno’s stand in as the security gaurd. The earlier scenes also seem to have been shot in a 70’s film style which I think made me feel like a kid so much again. The movie stars other great actors and actresses such as Liv Tyler, and William Hurt and they do a great acting job for their parts. There are a lot of the military smash and bash scenes like the first movie but it isn’t too overrated. I’d say just enough action to make it fun, but not so much to make you think it was overkill. The scene where Hulk bumps his head was pretty funny and I was glad to see there weren’t any hulk dogs or other animals for that matter put in this movie.

The whole ending of the movie with the soldier who went on the power trip and turned into Godzilla was ok although I think the fight scene between him and the Hulk could have been played out something better than it was. Throughout the final scenes of the showdown I kept getting a feeling that the producers were simply not doing a good job of putting something together that would make the whole ending of the movie something to be remembered. To me it just didn’t have that “WOW” factor.

Now, the big question: Is this movie worth adding to my DVD collection? Yes! But only after it has been in stores for awhile and it gets marked down to the discount prices.

I give this movie a 4 star rating.

Tags: edward norton, hulk, liv tyler, marvel comics, movie, review

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