Every Single MCU Film Ranked From Worst To Best

15. The Incredible Hulk (2008)

You can complain about the fact that we've not seen a stand-alone Hulk movie for almost a decade because of the movie rights issue all you like, but the reason Marvel have never worked as hard to get the issue ironed out is thanks to Ang Lee's Hulk and Louis Leterrier's problematic follow-up sequelboot.

The film - which actually has its merits (like General Ross, and the idea of having Hulk and the Abomination clash) - was something of a mess, beset by issues on set that saw star Edward Norton apparently take a little too much control. The result was a thick soup of imbalanced flavours that stinks to high heaven of too many cooks.

It actually improves as it gets older (or as we do), and it's some way better than Lee's interpretative dance of an adaptation, but all of the things that would make later MCU movies so effective - the blend of heart and spectacle and the character builds - wasn't quite refined enough. And it's ultimately the lack of heart that really does for it (not to mention the fatal lack of restraint shown by Tim Roth in his having-way-too-much-fun pantomime villain performance as Blonksy.