Kevin Doesn't . . . have lots of money to spend on Angie.

Went to see Hulk last night. Verdict: Nice looking (if somewhat unbelievable) but slow to get started. The main reason I went to see this film was to see the green dude smash things up. I didn't want to have to wait an hour to see him. I had a few other gripes, but I guess I'd better put these in a spoiler space (don't want to upset anyone now).

SPOILERS > > > There was far too much backstory in this film, especially at the beginning. That's all it seemed it was, backstory interspersed with a few moments of CGI-enhanced rage. Okay, we get it. Bruce is how he is because of his father's experiments and that accident with the gamma machine. We get it. But no, we've got another couple of dream-sequences. Another couple of flashbacks. Garr.

Also, what was with that ending? David, who's got some weird affinity with materials thing going on, goes to see his son. He talks to son. They fight. David becomes a big-ass eletrical monster, then a rock monster, then a water monster, then some kind of cloud monster. The cloud monster (doesn't sound scary, does it? And it isn't because the whole sequence is so dark you can't make out what David Banner is most of the time) says he wants to take the Hulk's powers. Hulk lets him. David dies. I still don't understand it.

Then there's some chat between Jennifer Connelly's character and her father. Father is saying that he thinks the Hulk is dead, but should he try to contact Jennifer Connelly, she should let him know. This is fine had we not been just told that this happens a year later. Surely they'd have had this conversation weeks before? < < < end SPOILERS

I suppose it was enjoyable enough. Ang Lee's direction was . . . interesting, and the comic-book touches didn't wear too much. Jennifer Connelly is hot (if occaisonally miserable-looking). Can't complain too much for only three and a half quid.

Later . . .