The Death of the Incredible Hulk

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Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno, stars of the late '70s, live-action television series The Incredible Hulk, cap a run of sporadic TV movies based on the old show with Death of the Incredible Hulk. The gloomy title says it all. Bixby's Dr. David Banner, spiritually exhausted after years of rage-induced transformations into a snarling, green monster, takes a last stab at finding a cure by posing as a retarded janitor in a government-funded research laboratory. His secret collaboration with a scientist (Philip Sterling) on "killing" the Hulk's genetic viability goes awry when a gorgeous foreign spy (Barbara Tarbuck) disrupts a crucial procedure and invites the wrath of brutal terrorists, the federal government, and, yes, the big man (Ferrigno) himself. With death chains rattling in the background, various ironies in the story become poignant: After years of isolation, Banner finds friendship and love just in time to risk it all for a lasting peace. --Tom Keogh

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He's Mean, He's Green and he's back! In a daring chase when the incredible Hulk challenges an international spy ring that?s attempting to steal secret computer files.

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It's not called the Death of, for no reason!.......2007-07-18

Now, I thought that David Banner was going to cure himself of this metamorphosis. That is what I thought the title of the movie means. Ridding himself of the creature has always been his goal. That was what he had in mind in the movie but the experiment backfired. Overall, the film was good. There are a few surprises. There are some sad moments so be sure to prepare for some drama.

Hulk!!.......2007-06-12

Absolutely awesome! I highly reccomend this to all Hulk enthusiasts. The Hulk lives on forever!

The Big Guy.......2006-11-10

What can i say The Incredible Hulk one of the best all time Tv series
that makes the movies a must have.

Not an Incredible finale.......2006-08-05

This made for T.V movie may pass an hour and a half if you have time to kill but other wise I wouldnt recomend seeking this title out on purpose. The whole thing is stale and cheesey but has a flow to it that doesnt bore you to tears, but it doesnt leave you feeling satasfied either.

12 years after the series Bana is working in a lab under a different name and he keeps breaking into the place at night to alter some other sceintists work, when the other guy busts him Bana tells him who he is and then they work together to find a cure but run into a bit of trouble along the way.

So much of the things that happen in this movie shouldve hit the cutting room floor, they where not needed and had nothing to do with what was needed to tell the plot. Nothign is beleivable, tho a series about a Dr Jeckyl & Mr Hide charactor may not be realistic either, but in this film i had a tough time suspending disbeleif and getting into Bana having a newly found girlfriend and the love scenes where just blurghh, things dont make sense like talkign about how someone is family after knowing them for 5 mins or someone put into a coma and having Bana sneak in to bring him out of it for absolutly no reason that is needed to tell this story that has a finale that doesnt require him what-so-ever.

Then the finale doesnt pay off either, infact, I think it was a stupid idea to call this the DEATH of the Hulk when all along you're waiting to see how they put an end to the Hulk... and the way its done left me with a raised eyebrow as they play some sad music like youre meant to shed a tear, but it doesnt work after such a lame effort to build up to something that shouldve gone off like a rocket but instead farted and hissed and conked out just leaving a stink behind.

Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno do their final tag-team effort with the Hulk.......2006-05-07

"The Incredible Hulk" ran on CBS from 1978 to 1982, starring Bill Bixby as Dr. David Bruce Banner and body builder Lou Ferrigno as his giant green alter ego. The television series kept Banner on the run, while reporter Jack McGee (Jack Colvin) dogged his heels. Basically it was a set up similar to "The Fugitive," except every week at some point Banner would have to become the Hulk. The key line was so obvious they worked it into the opening credits when Banner warned the reporter: "Mr. McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." Fans certainly did, even if they never read the Marvel comic books about ol' greenskin. When the television series went off the air NBC aired an animated version of "The Incredible Hulk" as part of its Saturday morning lineup that run from September 1982 to September 1985.

In 1988, Bixby, Ferrigno and Colvin returned for the first in a series of television movies, "The Incredible Hulk Returns." This was followed the next year by "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk," which ditched the reporter character and replaced him with another Marvel superhero, Daredevil (a.k.a. Matt Murdock). Then in 1989 we have what proved to be the last television movie of the Hulk, which makes sense when you look at the title of the film (there were rumors of a sequel, but Bixby's death in 1993 made that impossible). Bixby directed this television movie, so you have to think this is how he wanted to the series to end.

People think Banner is dead, so he is laying low, calling himself David Bellamy and working as a janitor at a high security research facility. David seems to be a bit slow, always forgetting his thermos and leaving by the wrong exit, but he has been there for several months and the guards are used to his slow ways. Of course this is just a pretense so that when everybody goes home he can sneak into the genetics lab. Ostensibly he is looking for a way to reverse what has happened to him and get rid of the Hulk, but he is also helping Dr. Ronald Pratt (Philip Sterling) with his research by correcting his mistakes. Pratt is trying to figure out who is helping him along and is surprised when he discovers it is the janitor. But he understands perfectly when he learns that David is the famous David Banner and agrees to help.

Meanwhile, there are evil foreigners who want to get their hands on Pratt's research and use it to create an army of perfect soldiers. Kasha (Andreas Katsulas, appearing without the massive makeup we remember from "Babylon 5") has coerced the beautiful Jasmin (Elizabeth Gracen), mistress of disguise, to break into the lab and steal Pratt's secrets. Even worse, Jasmin's sister, Bella (Anna Katarina), would not mind seeing her dead. Jasmin gets into Pratt's laboratory in the middle of an experiment with Banner, which means, of course, that the Hulk is going to appear. Now all the pieces are in play.

What is somewhat surprising is that the script by Gerald Di Pego, who also did "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk," turns the last half of the movie into more of a romance. Fate has thrown David and Jasmin (pronounced "Yasmin" and not "Jasmine") together, and they fall for each other. In terms of this plotline that seems a bit of a stretch, but then technically the first Hulk movie (i.e, it was released on video as one) was the two-part television episode with Mariette Hartley as Dr. Caroline Fields, where she dies and we all cry. Clearly Bixby is interested in provoking that sort of response for the end of this one.

There is certainly an element of pathos to the finale of this one, but the big moment is not really set up that well. I had trouble accepting the relationship between Jasmin and David, so I had to play catch up. But then I felt the same way about the big scene for the Hulk at the end as well, finding it fell short of the big finish as well. Consequently, "The Death of the Hulk" has a bittersweet ending because they should have been able to come up with a better way of pulling this off. I round up on this one only because the ending has the implicit Bixby stamp of approval and because the first half was pretty solid.

The Death of the Incredible Hulk: The Movie [Region 2]

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It's not called the Death of, for no reason!
Hulk!!
The Big Guy
Not an Incredible finale
Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno do their final tag-team effort with the Hulk

The Death of the Incredible Hulk: The Movie [Region 2]

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