Review of HANCOCK

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1. kungfueurotrash 07/01/2008 @ 8:56am

   Will Smith’s July Extravaganza…

2. SonaBoy 07/01/2008 @ 11:21am

   “All other superhero movies pale by comparison.”

   If this is better than The Incredibles, I’ll eat my anti-gravity boots.

3. ForgottenFilms 07/01/2008 @ 1:55pm

   The plot for this was given away like 4 months ago.

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   Hessomegodfromsomealienracemeanttoprotectthehumynrace.
   Hesthelastsurviverofthepowerfulrace. DUH!
   Not a surprise. Fucking lame.

4. Todd Brown 07/01/2008 @ 4:42pm

   Man, Visitor ... you liked it a whole lot better than me.  I don’t think it’s a bad film but it never really gets any better than just okay and releasing less than a week after Wanted and Wall-E, this thing is going to get slaughtered at the box office.

5. The Visitor 07/01/2008 @ 5:37pm

   well, how many Hollywood blockbusters have you seen lately where you really don’t know how its going to end? or maybe you did with this one, but i doubt it.

   oh, and ForgottenFilms, that’s only a very minor part of it.

6. Mack 07/01/2008 @ 6:10pm

   “At some point, it becomes a whole different movie altogether.”

   Some point? How about at every point my friend. Just got back from it and I can’t make up my mind WHAT kind of movie it was. It was all over the place. One minute it is this type of film, the next minute it is that type of film, then a minute later it wants to be another type of film. Enjoyable but not memorable. I see that it wants to be greater than the usual superhero fare but just couldn’t pull it off.

   A miss for me.

7. The Visitor 07/01/2008 @ 8:03pm

   well, i think it’s very clear what it wants to be.

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   it stars off being about a misunderstood superhero, about “great power comes great responsibility,” all those superhero conventions. then it abandons all of that, and becomes a story about loneliness, sacrifice and destiny vs freewill.
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   what i like about it most is that it’s got a great big heart throughout.

8. Mack 07/02/2008 @ 4:55am

   I agree with you… that’s the ‘story’ but what kind of film was it? Superhero? Comedy? Gross out comedy? Family Drama? Romance? It was everywhere on the genre spectrum.

9. Oldboy 07/02/2008 @ 10:01am

   i like all over the place genre like Save The Green Planet… haven’t seen Hancock yet but something tells me they didn’t pull it off?

10. Swarez 07/02/2008 @ 10:36am

    Going to see it in a few hours. Look forward to it.

11. evergreen 07/02/2008 @ 11:07am

    I don’t plan on paying any more of my time to see what exactly they reshot, but the cut I saw was terrible. Too busy, crammed with too many ideas - it didn’t know what it wanted to be.

    I will say though: Jason Bateman is awesome, but is that really a surprise?

12. ForgottenFilms 07/02/2008 @ 6:00pm

    Save the Green Planet is one of my favorite movies. the way it was marketed and presented was what made the curve ball it throws throughout the film so curvy.

13. WorthZero 07/02/2008 @ 7:22pm

    just came back from it:

    If they didn’t throw in the twist towards the end then it would have been ok.  It literally came out of nowhere.  I did enjoy the first half.  I felt like we were stepping into a character that was already established and it felt nice because we didn’t get an origin story.  Will Smith pulls off being an asshole very well.  But at the same time he was alittle too good at it.  Jason Bateman is great but he’s just Michael from Arrested Dev.  Charleze Theron was forgettable.  I was expecting much so it was alright for me.

14. Kurt Halfyard 07/02/2008 @ 9:22pm

    Wow. I quite liked Hancock.  Charlize Theron was fabulous, and strange to think that a big Will Smith blockbuster would play like a fusion of Dianipponjin, The Highlander and Superman, and this all in a good way. 

    The movie is not without its flaws, but oi, a rollicking good time with some fascinating bits to chew on. 

    I’m glad this movie was made.  Sorry Haters.

15. Ard Vijn 07/17/2008 @ 2:59am

    Agree with Kurt, but even more with Visitor.
    
    I had a blast, and carve up another notch on Peter Berg’s resumee. I’m going to watch that guy a lot closer from now on…
    
    Strange how people seem to be all over the place on this one. The group I saw it with was uniformly positive.
    
    Yes, that twist need not have happened, but it didn’t come out of nowhere either. How about letting a director tell a tale for once, instead of expecting him to follow the audiences supposed preference step by step? I loved how not everything is explained, but you get to see a tiny sliver of what makes John Hancock (or whatever his real name is) tick.
    
    Even more fun was discussing this movie as an allegory for American foreign politics.
    
    Barging in too fast, too loud, in theory the good guy, making a big impression short-term, leaving a lot of damage long-term, resenting being despised for it BUT STILL trying to be the good guy, desperately craving the love and respect of the rest of the world. Oh, and carrying an eagle.

    Reminds you of someone or something?
    As a non-American we thought it was funny. Definitely un-subtle but quite daring, just like the rest of the movie.

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