The Incredible Hulk General

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The Incredible Hulk General

After Ang Lee’s artistic but soulless 2003 film, a more crowd-pleasing approach was taken to the origin story of Marvel’s biggest green guy with The Incredible Hulk (2008). Although it’s arguably not as good as the first movie in terms of characterization and plot, it is much more faithful to the source material and has plenty of action and thrills to offer fans. There are some excellent performances in the cast as well, especially from Edward Norton as Bruce Banner and Liv Tyler as his love interest Betty Ross. William Hurt also turns in a fine performance as General Thaddeus Ross, and Tim Roth makes for a very bad villain as the Leader.

General Ross is a man who’s obsessed with the gamma radiation that created Banner, and he plans to recreate it in order to create an army of super-soldiers. He thinks that if the military can control the Hulk, it will be able to win any war. This is what leads him to pursue Banner, despite the fact that he’s trying to control his powers.

During the course of the movie, Ross continually tries to capture or kill Banner. However, every time he does, the Hulk gets away. Even when it becomes public knowledge that the Hulk is actually a genetically engineered organism, Ross remains determined to destroy the creature.

At one point, he hires Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth) to track down and trap the Hulk. The plan backfires as Blonsky disobeys orders and challenges the Hulk to a man-to-man fight, which is easily won by the green behemoth. Ross orders his soldiers to surround the field where this fight took place and fire their weapons at him, but they all vaporize as the Hulk rips through multiple Humvees.

In the end, Ross realizes that the best way to defeat the Hulk is to try and take him out from the inside. He wants to inject him with his own gamma radiation in order to make him the perfect soldier. However, the procedure fails because of a mistake on the part of the doctors. As a result, the Hulk explodes and destroys the facility.

This is a solid hulk film that’s a little less epic than the previous film, but it still has plenty of great action and solid performances from the entire cast. The only real disappointment is that we didn’t get to see a larger role for Bruce Banner, but I guess that’s the price you pay when you make a film about a superhero that can change into an unstoppable monster at will. This is an underrated movie that should be more widely seen than it is. It’s the kind of film that deserves to be seen alongside other classics like Batman Forever and The Punisher: War Zone. William Hurt’s performance is particularly good and is easily among his finest. It’s too bad that he won’t be around to continue playing this character in future MCU films, but his presence in this one will go a long way toward making The Incredible Hulk General a worthy addition to the Marvel canon.