That rings true of the entire movie. Jagged edges, cut corners, missed opportunities, yet somehow still charming and, in the end, workable.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 5, 2025

The film takes the necessary steps to balance action and drama, making each of Hulk’s battles significant for Banner and his continuing growth.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 13, 2025

While it pales in comparison to Ang Lee’s thrilling 2003 Hulk, Edward Norton’s lone venture into the MCU as the angry green guy was a perfectly suitable introduction for the character.

| Feb 27, 2024

The "forgotten" MCU feature is now available on Disney+, and it remains an interesting if flawed vehicle for Edward Norton that might have taken the Avengers saga in a very different direction.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 1, 2023

It's the first time the character has ever looked truly impressive onscreen, and every action scene is explosive and has real power behind it, with every blow feeling strong enough to crack the earth wide open.

| Jun 24, 2021

A brooding Norton acquits himself fine, and there's a thrilling chase through a Brazilian favela, but there's little tension and the underwhelming CGI leaves the battling behemoths looking like shiny plasticine figures...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 24, 2021

A perfectly fine "popcorn muncher", but the CG monster fight at the end of the film hasn't aged all that well. Still more good than bad, mind you...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2021

I cannot see an action scene involving the Hulk without grinning in the cinema like an idiot.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 25, 2021

Infinitely superior to the previous theatrical adaptation from 2003 - but that wasn't difficult to achieve in the slightest.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 28, 2020

It's far more faithful to the superhero's origin than Ang Lee's artistically satisfying but relatively soulless 2003 film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 12, 2020

No classic, but a fair action movie when its CGI-rendered title character busts loose.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 31, 2020

The film is at its most interesting in the brief moments when it ceases to feel like a "superhero movie." But these moments - when the drama is purely human, divorced from the half-formed shared universe backdrop - are few and far between.

| Dec 15, 2019

It's a film that has to be taken on its own merits, but those merits are enough to provide a some great summer thrills.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2019

There's way too little hulking for a Hulk movie

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 29, 2019

It's not a great film by any means but it's perfectly serviceable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 18, 2019

It is very imperfect and works best when it's purely a "chase film" ... Still, I wouldn't write it off either as unwatchable.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Dec 8, 2018

A movie that truly deserves to have "Incredible" restored to its title.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 2, 2018

In this follow-up to "Bouncing Hulk," the Hulk can't have intercourse. Poor Hulk.

| Aug 29, 2018

An energised, and by turns spectacular, return for the tetchy one though, which suggests, particularly by its open-ended finale, that there is a healthy future in store for its temperamental protagonist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2017

The Incredible Hulk is the best kind of summer popcorn movie. Just let loose your inner green geek and Hulk out.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 17, 2017