The Incredible Hulk

"This is Marvel Studios second comic book adaptation after Iron Man and has nothing to do with Ang Lee’s Hulk (2003), which ended up a box-office failure. Whereas that one had aspirations of intellectual drama, this one is a more straightforward action film."

"Unlike in Jon Favreau’s film [Iron Man], which featured a far more interesting hero [Robert Downey Jnr] than Banner, you need that big bang here—that cathartic exclamation point at the end of a long story. And Norton, try as he does with an almost heroic effort to make Banner as interesting as his towering, verdure-shaded beefcake within, doesn’t possess Robert Downey’s casual radiance."

"A straightforward actioner that delivers the goods with no unnecessary frills or digressions."

"The new Hulk is much more - if still not fully - convincing [than Ang Lee's version]. He's a meaner shade of green, has some real weight to his digital presence and really has quite lovely hair which ruffles in the wind, just so..."

"William Hurt and Tim Roth are like-minded and power-crazed, and both these great actors do a fine enough job. I have to confess I did leave the theatre feeling as though they didn't really stretch their legs for this."

"The Incredible Hulk is just a luridly reductive and violent B movie -- one that clears a bar that hadn't been set very high."

"A franchise rebooted with efficiency, energy and sporadic invention, although Hulk 2.0 hardly smashes it out of the park."

"The script's not terrible - just predictable, humourless and tediously violent."