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Trial of the Incredible Hulk, The (1989)
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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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01.03.04
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This movie starts off with a very hermit like, depressed and bearded Banner getting beat up by some migrant workers. He leaves this job and goes into the city where he gets mixed up with some criminals on a subway. They start harassing a woman he's sitting next to, he tells them to stop, they don't. They push him around and he changes into the Hulk. The two criminals freak out-and escape when the subway stops-but they knock the woman out and shoot an innocent bystander. The Hulk flees the scene of the crime, through the underground subway system, only to be caught by the police by the time he transforms back into banner.Banner is locked up, awaiting trial, and is appointed a lawyer, who turns out to be Matt Murdock (Rex Smith), aka DAREDEVIL. Murdock can sense Banner is telling the truth and wants to prove that the two men who actually committed the crime were working for the Kingpin (John Rhys-Davies).Rex Smith is good as Murdock-but the costume for Daredevil really sucks ass. It's basically a black body stocking with these goggles. The costume in the recent DAREDEVIL movie is a thousand times better.Banner transforms into the Hulk in prison and breaks free-and Murdock finds out that it's really a transformed David Banner. In turn, Daredevil entrusts him with his secret.After DAREDEVIL falls into a trap and is severely beaten by Kingpin's men, Banner nurses him back to health-and in doing so is able to get out of his own slump. He wants to help people again. There's a confrontation with Kingpin, HULK and DAREDEVIL fighting side by side, though the villain narrowly escapes at the end in a strange, Jetson-like aircraft. I liked this better than the THOR movie because it's so much more serious and similar in tone to the television series. And the transformation from Banner to Hulk is done slightly differently, which I thought interesting.Directed by Bill Bixby.
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Rating: 6.0 out of 10.0 - 2 votes cast total
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