Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.
Despite the profusion of computer-generated effects, which rousingly bring the green guy to life, I often felt, for better and for worse, that I was watching a comic-book movie reconceived as a piece of serious mythmaking.
– Peter Rainer,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
22 Jun 2003
fresh:
Big, dopey and crammed with special effects that take the breath away.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
26 Jun 2003
fresh:
An interesting effort to give one of the staples of mass entertainment something extra in the way of insight and feeling.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
10 Jul 2003
rotten:
Nice as it would be to report that Ang and his co-writer/producer James Schamus had regenerated the summer blockbuster, we gotta poop the party.