So if you’ve been desperate to find out what happens after Robert Downey Jr.’s cameo in The Incredible Hulk, The Consultant would be the bridging short for you.
It’s an interesting concept—little Blu-ray specials to flesh out side stories—but it only runs two and a half minutes, including lifting the cameo in its entirety. No, Edward Norton doesn’t make an appearance.
The short ostensibly follows Clark Gregg’s character from the Marvel movies around (retroactively inserting him into Hulk… kind of) but he doesn’t do anything but drink coffee in a diner and talk. If Eric Pearson’s script were funny, it might have worked. If it were a sitcom take on Gregg’s bureaucratic adventures (with superheroes)….
But, it’s not. Instead, it’s awkward and underproduced.
Even worse, Maximiliano Hernández has a lot more personality (as Gregg’s sidekick) than Gregg does himself.
The concept’s interesting but this execution fails.
Leave a Reply