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Incredible Hulk, The

Director – Louis Leterrier

Staring – Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Time Roth, William Hurt

Following a radiation accident Bruce Banner transforms into the hulk whenever his heart rate rises above 200.  He becomes a fugitive from the US government (in particular General Thunderbolt Ross and Emil Blonsky) who want to use the Hulking process as a weapon.

They try to capture him at a university where Ross’s daughter Betty works and Blonsky and Betty are injured. Banner rescues Betty and they go on the run. Blonsky gets infected with a drop of Banners blood.

Banner and Betty find an expert in radioactive poisoning who is working on an antidote, but also has synthesised Banners blood to help medical breakthroughs. But Ross and Blonsky find them. Banner is captured by Ross and Blonsky transforms himself using the synthetic blood and goes on a rampage. Banner and Blonsky fight in their hulk forms and Banner wins and goes into hiding in a forest.

Ross is then drinking in a bar when Tony Stark (Ironman)comes to tell him a team is being put togetherth.

The DVD includes a film makers commentary.

5/10