It’s no wonder we’ve spent the past two and a half years watching trailers for Hancock, patiently awaiting a new kind of superhero in Will Smith and predicting the villain, plus the outcome. With so many stunts and wreckage and twisted metal, not to mention countless extras and digital editing, there’s no way a movie like this could meet a proper deadline or budget. Good thing they starred Will Smith because I don’t know if audiences could tolerate such a long wait for anyone else.
The ever excusable Smith managed to lend depth to a character careening towards one-dimensional. This is not to say Hancock is loveable in the teddy bear sense of the word. But he is allowed to go home at the end of the day with the same nod we give Samuel L. Jackson, even after a bad film.
If Hancock had turned out to be bad, I doubt anyone would blame Smith. The only shortcoming I could find with Hancock was the liberal sprinkling of profanity from the mouths of kids, which leads me to wonder of this film barely squeaked under an R-rating, save for a complete lack of sex scenes (but that’s a debate for another time. I know there are already contributors to this site who second-guess the MPAA rating system).
There were a few questions hanging open in the end, the kind that probably could not be answered with a sequel. I hesitate to use the term “plot hole” but let’s for lack of a better word.
Nonetheless, Jason Bateman and Charlize Theron were also great, but I’ll stop here before I give anything away.
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Just to set the record straight, I thought Hancock was one of the worst movies I have seen, definitely the worst since I Know Who Killed Me. I thought that it’s fatal flaw lay in it’s attempt to make the movie 4 different genres, Superhero, Comedy, Drama, and Romantic Comedy. Oh, and then there’s the twist…we won’t even talk about the twist.
But admit it, Will Smith is forgiveable.
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