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Metascore
38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt"Iron Man" has more wit and style, but Hulk is a neat thrill ride with an intelligent script by Zak Penn and smart, well-paced direction by the French director of "The Transporter" series, Louis Leterrier.
- 78Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovFive years after Ang Lee attempted a stylistically and narratively daring reimagining of what a comic-book movie could be (an example that tanked disastrously at the box office), the big green gamma-guy returns to the screen in a purer, more unadulterated, vastly more entertaining form.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe Incredible Hulk is a more traditional superhero movie than its predecessor and should please those who want their not-so-jolly green giant served with helpings of action. This film provides less talk and more smashing.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleEmbraces its identity as a sci-fi-summer-action-blockbuster extravaganza. Along the way, it actually comes close to finding the balance that Lee was looking for.
- 75PremierePremiereBy handing the directorial reigns to Louis Leterrier, the Parisian filmmaker responsible for the breathless "Transporter" films, Universal reveals its desire to emphasize spectacle over story.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyA straightforward actioner that delivers the goods with no unnecessary frills or digressions.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe Incredible Hulk is just a luridly reductive and violent B movie -- one that clears a bar that hadn't been set very high.
- 63USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigThis Hulk is more viscerally angry and packs a bigger wallop than Ang Lee's talkier, more introspective version. But it's hardly the best superhero movie around. "Iron Man" was wittier and more fun.
- 60EmpireEmpireA franchise rebooted with efficiency, energy and sporadic invention, although Hulk 2.0 hardly smashes it out of the park.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceCheers to lower expectations, then, because The Incredible Hulk is The Pretty Good Hulk. All things considered, of course.