Saturday, June 28, 2008

......On the lines of Superman

In the film, Incredible Hulk, Director Louis Leterrier relates the story of Dr. Bruce Banner seeking a cure to his gamma radiation, which turns him into a giant green monster when faced with any stress. Throw in a military trailing him and you have the ingredients for a thrillerl. Now add another monster, The Abomination. Hulk has his foe in the life of an ordinary man, he has to contend with the evil Abomination, whose villanious streak is so powerful that you find him repulsive.

Now he finds himself working in a soda bottle company in Brazil, practising anger management, but nothing is working. So much so that he finds himself all but bare-bodied in Guatemala, barefoot in Mexico and with barely a hope in the U.S. All along he is wanted so that the data bank within him can be surgically removed and turned into a weapon of destruction.

Soon we get to see a guerrilla who performs radiation experiments on himself with the aid of a medico.

And instead of a monster wreaking havoc, we have two in combat.

One tries to stay alive as a human, the other just wants to destroy. It is a neat twist keeping in mind the boxoffice demands. But it all works.

All along, the camera forays into the underbelly of Brazil, the forests of Guatemala, the markets and plazas of Mexico.

All a treat for viewers. Much like the film.

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