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Hulk 2008 - Movies
Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) is a scientist working to find a way to
use gamma radiation to increase healing time in soldiers. One of his
co-workers is Betty Ross (Liv Tyler), whose father, General Thaddeus
"Thunderbolt" Ross (William Hurt), oversees the project. Upon
subjecting himself to a gamma test, Banner transforms into a
green-skinned, superhumanly powerful creature. He destroys the lab,
injures Betty and Ross and escapes.
Several years later, he
surfaces in Brazil, working at a local soft drink factory. He trains
with martial artists on how to control his gamma-irradiated anger, and
communicates via encrypted e-mail with Mr. Blue about developing a
cure. Ross has continued to search for him, believing that Banner is
effectively the property of the United States government. Thanks to an
accident at the factory, Ross tracks Banner to Brazil. He assembles a
strike force led by a ruthless British soldier, Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth)
and sends them after Banner. They chase Banner through the city and
into the soft drink factory. Banner is also pursued by several
hooligans who dislike him. When the hooligans attack Banner, he loses
control of his anger and transforms into his green alter ego just as
the strike team arrives. He makes quick work of the hooligans and
strike team, then leaps his way out of Brazil.
Blonsky demands
that Ross tell him the truth about Banner. Ross reveals that the goal
of the program was not to develop new ways of treating injuries but to
create an army of invincible super soldiers. Blonsky is intrigued and,
recognizing that he is at the end of his career at age 39, asks to be
given the super soldier formula himself. Ross agrees and Blonsky
undergoes a painful procedure.
Banner returns to the United
States, in particular to a college town in Virginia. Betty still
teaches there. Banner sneaks into a computer laboratory and downloads
vital information about the experiments and his own physiognomy. That
night, Betty and her new boyfriend, Leonard Samson (Ty Burrell) see
Banner in a restaurant. Betty takes Banner home, but Samson contacts
Ross. Banner plans to leave the next day but Ross's forces attack him
on campus. Banner transforms again, and witnesses to the battle dub him
"the Hulk." During the fight, Blonsky confronts Hulk and displays
superhuman reflexes, but Hulk kicks Blonsky into a tree, shattering
every bone in his body. Betty is nearly killed in a helicopter assault.
Hulk rescues her and takes her to safety. During a rain storm, Hulk
becomes scared of the thunder and hurls rocks at it. Betty calms him
down. The next morning, she checks them into a motel and buys him new
clothes. They decide to go to New York and meet Mr. Blue. On the way,
Betty suggests that some of Banner's personality remains when he is in
Hulk form, but Banner angrily rejects this notion. He wants to be rid
of the Hulk, not find a way to control it.
Ross is pleasantly
surprised to see Blonsky has completely healed from his grievous
injuries. However, he doesn't notice the bony spines beginning to
protrude from Blonsky's back.
Mr. Blue is really Samuel Sterns
(Tim Blake Nelson), a professor at a college in New York City. He
reveals to Banner that he has a procedure that might suppress the Hulk
reaction but probably not cure Banner. However, he wants to continue to
study Banner so they can find a way to use his blood to cure countless
diseases. Banner refuses to allow that, but agrees to undergo Sterns's
suppression procedure. It seems to work. However, Ross has tracked
Banner to Sterns's office. This time, Banner is successfully captured.
Betty tells Ross that she no longer considers him her father. Blonsky
confronts Sterns and asks to be exposed to Banner's irradiated blood.
Sterns warns him that the result could be "an abomination" but Blonsky
insists. The result: Blonsky turns into an enormous, scaly Abomination.
He leaps from Sterns's laboratory. In the chaos, Sterns ingests some of
Banner's blood himself. His head begins to mutate.
Insane with
power, Blonsky goes on a rampage in Harlem. In the helicopter taking
them to custody, Banner, Betty and Ross see television footage of the
destruction. Banner believes he can now control the Hulk. He leaps from
the helicopter and transforms into the Hulk just before he hits the
ground. He and Abomination wage a fierce battle. Abomination knocks the
helicopter with Ross and Betty in it from the sky. Just as Abomination
is about to kill them, Hulk stops him and nearly strangles Abomination
to death with heavy chains. Betty's horrified reaction keeps Hulk from
actually killing Abomination, however. Instead, he leaps away,
eventually winding up in British Columbia. Weeks of meditation help
Banner finally gain control of his alter ego.
Ross sits in a
bar, smoking his trademark cigars and drinking himself into a stupor.
Billionaire industrialist Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) enters and
suggests that a team he is putting together just might help Ross solve
his Hulk problem.
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