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Hancock [2008]
from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
starring Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman
directed by Peter Berg

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

Hancock turns the standard superhero movie inside-out. The titular character, played by Will Smith, can fly, has super strength and is invulnerable. But he's also a sloppy, arrogant alcoholic who causes millions of dollars in property damage whenever he bothers to fight crime. When he saves the life of a PR agent named Ray (Jason Bateman, Arrested Development), Ray decides to improve Hancock's image--starting by having Hancock surrender himself to the authorities and go to prison for his lawless behaviour. The idea is that once he's in prison, the crime rate will go up and people will start realising Hancock might be of value after all. This is only the first act of Hancock though--from there, the film takes several surprising turns that shouldn't be revealed. Hancock isn't a great movie, but it is an extremely entertaining one. The script, which holds together far better than most superhero movies, has a propulsive plot, good dialogue, some compassion for its characters, and even an actual idea or two. The spectacular action at least gestures towards obeying the laws of physics, which actually makes the special effects more vivid. The three leads (Smith, Bateman, and Charlize Theron as Ray's wife, Mary) deftly balance the movie's mixture of comedy, action, and drama. All in all, a smart subversive twist on a genre that all too often takes itself all too seriously. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Oh. Dear.
  After I Am Legend (disappointing), I was hoping for a good Will Smith film. Unfortunately, I didn't get my wish. I like superhero movies, generally, but Hancock is mediocre.
  John Hancock is a depressed alcoholic superhero. He's still doing his job, but in the process of saving lives he's also costing Los Angeles millions of dollars in repairs. For this reason, the public do not like him and are getting to the stage where they wish he'd leave and go 'save' another city. Things change, though, when... more info

• Not what I expected....
  When I saw the adverts for this film I assumed it was just like any other comedy - I was half right.
  It was like someone wrote one half of the film and left someone more serious to right the other. I'm not trying to say it's bad, just a little strange. The first half was very funny but the other half of the film, the jokes which were made were getting fewer and fewer, until the end where it was all really serious.
  The first half of the film I give it 5 stars without a doubt.
  The second... more info

• Cocksure
  The first hour of this movie is a brilliantly enjoyable antidote to superhero movies. Will Smith is excellent as a drunken, dysfunctional superman whose feats of heroism wreak havoc on Los Angeles, alienating him from the public and making him even more dysfunctional. Jason Bateman steps in as a down-on-his-luck PR guru and attempts to guide Hancock through a moral makeover. It's all extremely inventive, reaching a climax at a stunning twist involving Bateman's wife, Charlize Theron. But after that the... more info

• RIP OFF !!!
  ok bascily hollywoods makeing all these ironman,the hulk,hellboy etc etc comic book hero films
  so they go i no lets get a famous actor to make up a complete random pointless hero and make are own super hero
  so they created Hancock its just so dumb
  they just wanted some limelight in the time of the super hero films
  hancock sucks
  ether that or they wanted a black super hero
  if they did want a black super hero they should of made another spawn film

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