Scientist Bruce Banner has, to put it mildly, anger management issues. His quiet life as a brilliant researcher working with cutting edge genetic technology conceals a nearly forgotten and painful past. His ex-girlfriend and equally brilliant fellow researcher, Betty Ross, has tired of Bruce's cordoned off emotional terrain and resigns herself to remaining an interested onlooker to his quiet life.
Which is exactly where Betty finds herself during one of the early trials in Banner's groundbreaking research. A simple oversight leads to an explosive situation and Bruce makes a split-second decision; his heroic impulse saves a life and leaves him apparently unscathed with his body absorbing a normally deadly dose of gamma radiation.
All the while, a massive creature - a rampaging, impossibly strong being who comes to be known as the Hulk - continues its sporadic appearances, cutting a swath of destruction, leaving Banner's lab in shambles and his house with blown out walls. The military is engaged, led by Betty's father, General "Thunderbolt" Ross, along with rival researcher Glenn Talbot, and both personal vendettas and familial ties come into play, heightening the danger and raising the stakes in the escalating emergency.
Betty Ross has her theories, and she knows the shadowy figure lurking in the background, Bruce's father, David, is somehow connected. She may be the only one who understands the link between scientist and the Hulk, but her efforts to stop the military threat, deploying every weapon in its attempt to capture the monster, may be too late to save both man and creature.
A sequel of sorts was released in 2008 called the Incredible Hulk although none of the original cast members returned.
