You think that you’ve got high blood pressure? Get Hulk’s pulse over 200 beats per minute and he turns into a not-so-jolly green giant. Ed Norton is “The Hulk” by night, and a pretty nice/even-slightly-nerdy-guy by day. He’s down in Brazil, waiting for the info he needs to transform himself back into a normal male after being poisioned by garma rays. William Hurt is the General who chases Hulk’s powers throughout the film, while Hulk’s love interest Liv Tyler stands by her man (even when he’s twenty-five feet tall and thrashing around the city.) Unlike most evil villains, Hulk genuinely cares about the public and doesn’t want to harm anybody so he tends to warn people to ‘stand back’ before having ‘an incident.’ What I didn’t understand is why doesn’t Liv Tyler just grab a couple of passports and suitcases and take Hulk to say, Paris, to live. There, sitting in a French cafe, he’d be under no stress thus never hitting his 200 blood pressure mark. And they could live happily ever after. All that said, this Hulk is much better than the 2003 version and when Liv finds out her man’s true identity, turns into a slight “King Kong”-esque film. Three tiaras
