I don’t know where to start with this movie if you can even technically call it a movie. The Amazing Bulk is a micro-budget version of The Incredible Hulk and manages to be one of the absolute, most terrible movie I have ever seen. I am still trying to figure how the director even managed to release this film for public consumption or how he even thought that this film was passable for entertainment. This film even has the willingness to place a quoted statement on their DVD cover by the writer, James DePaulo, stating that the movie is The Room of superhero films. For me, The Room is an actually funny movie because of how bad it is but The Amazing Bulk is just all bad with very little funny to go along with it.
The Amazing Bulk starts with a scene where a “lady of the night” is walking down a couple of alleyways, and if you were to study the background it does not seem to make a lot of sense as to where she is going. Eventually, she gets stopped by a mugger and has a gun pulled on her. She tries to fight him off to no avail and then we are treated to the first sight of The Amazing Bulk. I almost couldn’t believe what I was looking at. There he was a terrible CGI, purple and out of shape imitation of The Incredible Hulk. The animation he is given when we first see him is odd and seemingly unnatural, quite random at times, especially in his facial movements. He ends up scaring the girl and her mugger, which results in her getting shot in the head. After she dies, we get a shot of the mugger’s face and a stock animation gun is placed in front of his face with no attempt to make it seem like he is actually holding it as he shoots a bullet at The Amazing Bulk. This does nothing to Bulk and the perp puts his hands up in terror and that’s it, the scene is done, we do not even get to see the attack.
This movie is not only bad when it comes to the acting and story but the visuals are unbelievably lazy. When you watch this film it is painfully obvious that every single scene is just a green screened actor over a 3D image or a stock background animation. What makes this even more obvious is the fact that the proportions are not even close to being correct in any of the scenes which make the actor stand out against the backdrop even more. The director himself even states that while doing “research” for the film he stumbled upon stock animation photos he could use and even goes as far as placing the websites he used to obtain these animations from in the ending credits of this movie. Adding the actors on to the film apparently only took two days of shooting, which lends to the quality you can expect from The Amazing Bulk.
The rest of the movie is just a bad rendition of the Incredible Hulk without any of the Hollywood magic you expect to see in a Hulk movie. Since the movie was basically written around the stock footage the director found on the internet, we are not treated to a good transformation scene or even a fight scene at that. It seems that everything that could have been visually cool to see was just hinted at or done off the screen without any effort to entertain the audience. I couldn’t find a favorite scene throughout the movie but if I had to pick any moment that I enjoyed, it had to be when the two cops that have been after the Bulk throughout the film get into an altercation with him and a badly animated and miss-proportioned car flips onto and crushes the female cop. I was in awe of how bad that death scene looked.
The Amazing Bulk is bad, uninteresting and completely lazy. With a reported micro budget of $14,000, I feel like anybody could have done a way better job than what we ended up with. The acting was horrible but was still better than all the overused imitations that keep getting shoved in our faces. It still bothers me that in the opening sequence, we got the animation of a gun over the mugger’s face and not in his hand, which he could have just raised to make the scene look a tiny bit more realistic. Later in the movie, however, they decided to use a Hulk Smash toy glove painted in Purple to hint at the transformation from doctor to The Amazing Bulk.
I wouldn’t watch this movie again and do not recommend it. I usually find the good in every bad movie and tell you the funny aspects in them but this movie is just completely awful and unwatchable. I wouldn’t even consider this a movie, just a series of cheap stock animations with random acting sprinkled in between.
