The most recent incarnation of the Incredible Hulk franchise sucks pretty hard, particularly compared to the semi-poetic Ang Lee-directed version of a few years back. Edward Norton couldn’t (or didn’t try, or wasn’t given enough of a chance) to carry the film, and Liv Tyler was in it, which gave the film a huge disadvantage from the outset. It was all predictable banal build-up to the Hulk vs. bad guy showdown at the end (which was certainly the best part of the film), with the typical romantic sub-plot and whatnot. It was a stand-alone Hulk film with too much time wasted in the comprehensive retelling of the Hulk saga. I was particularly disappointed with Edward Norton, who I expected to do better than Eric Bana did in Ang Lee’s version. Too bad Norton had half the script and direction to work with than Bana did.