If you like Super-Hero films, see The Hulk
If you don't like Super-Hero films, see The Hulk
It’s directed by Ang Lee (he of Sense of Sensibility and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fame, amongst others), so you should go and see it on those grounds alone. It’s an intelligent film, well written, well acted and well shot - it’s the first film I’ve ever seen that, with lots of split-screen stuff and rapid zooms, looks like it’s a comic book. Which is not to say that it’s an edgy Bruckheimer attention-deficit disorder film; there’s plenty of exciting editing and CGI mayhem, but that’s not the focus of the film.
Let me say that again. The point of The Hulk is not the over-the-top violence. It’s a quest to understand and control this freak of nature who, when it comes down to it, isn’t actually bad - the Hulk never starts a fight, and never kills anybody - but just mindless and unstoppable.
The action scenes are pretty damn good - there’s far more to the tank battle than you’ve seen in the trailer, for instances - but the vast majority of the film is not action scenes. And it makes for very interesting watching.