Movie Review: 'The Hulk'

By Bob Mondello

Published June 19, 2003 at 6:00 PM HST

The new movie The Hulk is based on a Marvel comics character who is a sort of muscle-bound green id run amok. The film, from acclaimed director Ang Lee, has received mixed responses from the nation's critics. NPR's Bob Mondello offers his review.

Bob Mondello

Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.

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