10 Worst Comic Book Movie Climaxes

Letting Ang Lee direct a Hulk film was just a bad idea all-around. Yes, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a fantastic display of martial arts, but that is a rare exception in Lee's filmography and skill at directing kung fu doesn't exactly translate to Hollywood blockbusters. As a result, what should have been an all-out action extravaganza turned into a dull and pretentious examination of childhood abuse or something.

Hulk is severely lacking in decent action for most of its running time, but towards the second half it almost looks like it is finally about to deliver the goods... and then it loses the plot again. After fighting off mutant dogs and the military, Bruce Banner's final battle ends up being against his dad, who has turned himself into the Absorbing Man kind of.

What we then get as an action climax is an incomprehensible mess of bizarre imagery. Hulk and his father fly out to the desert through a thunderstorm. Nick Nolte then turns into a rock monster before he and son fight underwater. Then Hulk somehow expunges all of his gamma radiation in his father, turning him into a giant jellyfish filled with bad memories, before Sam Elliot ends it all by firing a missile at them.

The whole thing feels like a weird fever dream, which ultimately makes this incredibly bizarre sequence surprisingly hard to remember.