Hancock

[Dr.Doom]

Spoiler

Hancock was going to tel her husband that she has powers like him.

 

[The Chris]

I would be game for a sequel because I really like this movie, but I think the studio and the filmmakers have to show a more clear and surehand on how they want the film to be, and also

Spoiler

Give Hancock a villain throughout the whole film. The reasons why I don't like the last 15 mins as much as everything before it is because it felt all over the place. And I could never buy the three normal humans who come after him in the hospital. Especially after the fight Hancock and Charlize had, if felt small

However, I felt the cast was very good, I really liked all the stuff beforehand, and Will Smith as a superhero is awesome.

 

[The Guardian]

I SAW THE FILM THIS AFTERNOON, I LIKED IT ALLOT, ESPECIALLY THE THREE MAIN CHARACTERS!!! I HOPE IT DOES WELL, WILL IS GREAT AS USUAL AND CHARLIZE, AND JASON WERE GREAT AS WELL!!! I'D LOVE TO SEE A SEQUEL WITH HANCOCK BEING GIVEN AN ARCH VILLAIN!!! GO SEE IT IF YOU HAVEN'T, IT'S FUN 9/10!!!up:

 

[Metal Spidey]

This movie was amazing, it has a nice blend of action and comedy. The only thing is, when Charlize reveals that she has powers, the movie gets more serious. Not that it's a bad thing, I was just used to comedic action. Here's the thing that bugs me, Charlize didn't fully explain what they are and where they came from. Maybe it would've been best if they were government experiments. Another thing is the guys who try to kill them. What's their story? Why do they call him Hancock when they most likely know his real name? Normally this would bother me but the movie makes up for some of it. Hopefully a sequel will be made and it'll go further into detail.

 

[Fanticon]

Can someone tell me why Charliza and Will Smith character were fighting please i just wanna know that part.

gladly...aside from the poorly written script and from the moment it happens...you later get this exposition...

Spoiler

heroes of their design...which date back to the greeks and their belief in gods...were made in pairs...so that when one meets the other they will become mortal. Their attraction is feral-like, and draws them near to eachother...Hancock has amnesia, since the 1920's is as far back as he can remember...when he meets Bateman, he meets Theron, and feels some strange connection to her...by the time he makes his move, we're already well aware that she is hiding something...the twist is as laughable as the vague explanation...

that may all sound interesting on the page...but it translates horribly on screen...save your money...I saw it for free...and yet I'm still here complaining. I think I would have paid someone to not see it...as it is Will Smith's worst movie since WWW.

 

[chaseter]

^This is not as bad as WWW

 

[spideyboy_1111]

^This is not as bad as WWW

WWW at least knows it's a funny/ridiculous/cheese fest from start to finish.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

If your expecting a "Big Willie Style Weekend" as the media has called it these past 4th of Julys lets just say that The Dark Knight has nothing to worry about.

The movie is okay, not great but far better than I Am Legend and I don't see why this movie couldn't be pushed later for the fall since it doesn't have that ingredient for a summer blockbuster.

I see it opening big numbers and drop in the following weeks, I blame the advertising since they don't know whether to market it as a comedy or an action/adventure flick.

An I dying for a sequel? NOPE

my rating: 3 out of 5 stars

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

I totallt saw that. I just assumed it was some kind of performer, they were downtown.

They were in Hollywood actually, you can see some of the landmarks there and the abundance of tourists.

In downtown LA all you see are the bums.

 

[muscaremy]

This movie was amazing, it has a nice blend of action and comedy. The only thing is, when Charlize reveals that she has powers, the movie gets more serious. Not that it's a bad thing, I was just used to comedic action. Here's the thing that bugs me, Charlize didn't fully explain what they are and where they came from. Maybe it would've been best if they were government experiments. Another thing is the guys who try to kill them. What's their story? Why do they call him Hancock when they most likely know his real name? Normally this would bother me but the movie makes up for some of it. Hopefully a sequel will be made and it'll go further into detail.

those are the two dudes from prison earlier, the guy from the bank and others from jail thats their story...... also they know him as hancock and nuttin else

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

wasnt he in Teen Wolf 2?

Yeah he was and what a coincidence that it was also bad.

 

[Episode29]

^This is not as bad as WWW

I think I might disagree on that one.

WWW sucked. No doubt. But it was well edited and polished looking. As well. It also always stayed true to what it was trying to achieve. Yes, the script was hopeless and the flick ain't any fun, but there was a significant effort on the part of director Barry Sonnenfeld.

Hancock is just so lazy. It jumps genres at the drop of the hat in search of a narrative that works, and manages to fail at all of them. The comedy ain't funny, the drama is under-developed and shallow, the action is poorly staged and dull, and the tragic elements are ludicrous. It's like five bad movies cobbled into one over-baked mish-mash of nonsense that feels far longer than its scant 90 minute running time.

Basically, I'd give WWW: 2/5 and Hancock: 1.5/5.

 

[Drizzle]

I saw this movie tonight. I enjoyed it fine. I can't see why people are coming down so hard on it.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Having just watched Wanted a few days ago, I couldn't help but ask the obvious question: Who looked better in their role: Charlize or Angelina? Both looked AMAZING in these flicks.

 

[Episode29]

Having just watched Wanted a few days ago, I couldn't help but ask the obvious question: Who looked better in their role: Charlize or Angelina? Both looked AMAZING in these flicks.

Angelina looked disturbingly anorexic in Wanted, so I'll vote for Charlize.

 

[Episode29]

Okay, here's my full review:

As I sit here, trying to sort through the scattered details of my experience watching Hancock, I’m left with a simple question: What happened? We have Will Smith, arguably the biggest movie star on the face of the planet, playing a conflicted superhero. We have a solid supporting cast featuring the always engaging Charlize Theron and comically gifted Jason Bateman as a husband and wife team who help the mighty-louse achieve respectability. There’s even an emerging hot-shot directorial talent, Peter Berg (The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights) running the show. So why is Hancock such an incomprehensible mess? No really, I’d like to know.

It can’t be because the script was hopeless, because it has been a hot property in Hollywood for a fair number of years. Sold and produced under the title Tonight, He Comes (*tee-hee*), then given the slightly less porn-centric moniker Hancock, the film was initially intended to be a blackly humorous deconstruction of the superhero genre with a thoroughly unlikable protagonist. My guess is that that’s where the Hollywood heavies stepped in and made some drastic changes in the name of the kid-friendly PG-13 rating and the guarantee of summertime dollars. The hell with logic or narrative focus, not to mention artistic integrity!

As it stands now, the Fresh Prince’s titular character isn’t even that much of a scoundrel. He’s more of a surly alcoholic with a bawdy streak and a penchant for leaving bedlam and destruction in his wake. After saving nice-guy Public Relations executive Ray Embrey (Bateman) from a train-wreck (Ironic, much?), the struggling professional decides to take on Hancock as a project. The drunken crusader, initially resistant, humours Ray and allows himself to be incarcerated for his numerous crimes against the city’s architecture. After a montage of therapy/prison life scenes, he’s in reluctant hero-mode, uneasily helping the police stop bank robberies, and donning a goofy black costume. However, hidden complications soon loom, and when they come into play, Hancock and Ray’s lives are irreversibly altered, and the film itself veers off into Looney-land.

The plot synopsis above really only covers the first half-hour of this ninety-minute snoozer. Whatever impressions you’ve gotten from the movie’s marketing campaign should be dismissed, as Hancock is not the comedic hero flick you’ve been expecting. Each of the three acts manages to take the film into a different genre: The first section is a foul-mouthed comedy in which the word “*******” is uttered, perhaps, more than any film in the history of cinema. Then there is a clunky transition, and we’re suddenly in action-thriller territory, with a predictable surprise development and a truly dismal attempt at a superhero battle. Finally, after we’ve grown frustrated and tired from being jerked around, the movie develops into a tragic romance that is so overblown it’ll likely draw titters from the peanut gallery and mass watch-checking from everyone else.

Through it all, Will Smith stands tall and strives valiantly to entertain. He’s actually quite good here, fearlessly kidding his family-friendly image and being pretty darn winning in the process. Jason Bateman is equally on par, essentially holding the film together with his well-executed straight-man routine. On the other hand, I don’t really know what to say about Charlize Theron. Half of the film consists of her giving ridiculously over-the-top reaction shots in the presence of Hancock, hammering home that a “Big Plot Twist” is on the horizon. I half expected her to jump off the screen and plop down into the seat next to mine, where she could then nudge me knowingly in the ribs every ten seconds. Her work in the latter part of the film, when she is actually given dialogue, is passable, but was overshadowed by the story sending my Preposterousness Meter screaming into the red.

By all appearances, Hancock wreaks of the work of a desperate studio who, needing a July 4th tent-pole film, have taken an edgy comedy and cut and slashed it into something resembling bland family entertainment. When one observes the abundance of plot-threads and ideas shoe-horned into such a scant running time, you know something is rotten in Tinseltown. If anyone ever decides to assemble a detailed behind-the-scenes expose on the backstage politics going on during Hancock’s production, it’ll be a worthwhile Amazon purchase.

Hancock is a complete belly-flop of a film that lacks a single justification for its own existence. This season has already seen two superior super-powered epics in Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, and with the impending Dark Knight and Hellboy II, Hancock is utterly outclassed. At this point in the game, the super-hero film bar is at such a lofty level that franchise hopefuls have a zero margin for error. The people behind Hancock shot themselves in the foot the second they fired it out of the gate half-cocked.

1.5 out of 5

 

[Nightmare]

Yeah he was and what a coincidence that it was also bad.

 

[SatEL]

This film rocked from start to finish, for those who are thinking about seeing it make sure you do and ignore the critics. This is a film you can only decide you like by yourself, I dont understand how people can call crap like Superma Returns and Wanted good films when Hancock is much better than both those films. I am not saying there are not elements that can be fixed in the film but this film was extremly enjoyable and I hope it tears up the box office. Hopefully we get a sequel with a more polished script and a longer running time, Hancock 2 rise of the gods.

 

[BMM]

Okay, here's my full review:

As I sit here, trying to sort through the scattered details of my experience watching Hancock, I’m left why a simple question: What happened? We have Will Smith, arguably the biggest movie star on the face of the planet, playing a conflicted superhero. We have a solid supporting cast featuring the always engaging Charlize Theron and comically gifted Jason Bateman as a husband and wife team who help the mighty-louse achieve respectability. There’s even an emerging hot-shot directorial talent, Peter Berg (The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights) running the show. So why is Hancock such an incomprehensible mess? No really, I’d like to know.

It can’t be because the script was hopeless, because it has been a hot property in Hollywood for a fair number of years. Sold and produced under the title Tonight, He Comes (*tee-hee*), then given the slightly less porn-centric moniker Hancock, the film was initially intended to be a blackly humorous deconstruction of the superhero genre with a thoroughly unlikable protagonist. My guess is that that’s where the Hollywood heavies stepped in and made some drastic changes in the name of the kid-friendly PG-13 rating and the guarantee of summertime dollars. The hell with logic or narrative focus, not to mention artistic integrity!

As it stands now, the Fresh Prince’s titular character isn’t even that much of a scoundrel. He’s more of a surly alcoholic with a bawdy streak and a penchant for leaving bedlam and destruction in his wake. After saving nice-guy Public Relations executive Ray Embrey (Bateman) from a train-wreck (Ironic, much?), the struggling professional decides to take on Hancock as a project. The drunken crusader, initially resistant, humours Ray and allows himself to be incarcerated for his numerous crimes against the city’s architecture. After a montage of therapy/prison life scenes, he’s in reluctant hero-mode, uneasily helping the police stop bank robberies, and donning a goofy black costume. However, hidden complications soon loom, and when they come into play, Hancock and Ray’s lives are irreversibly altered, and the film itself veers off into Looney-land.

The plot synopsis above really only covers the first half-hour of this ninety-minute snoozer. Whatever impressions you’ve gotten from the movie’s marketing campaign should be dismissed, as Hancock is not the comedic hero flick you’ve been expecting. Each of the three acts manages to take the film into a different genre: The first section is a foul-mouthed comedy in which the word “*******” is uttered, perhaps, more than any film in the history of cinema. Then there is a clunky transition, and we’re suddenly in action-thriller territory, with a predictable surprise development and a truly dismal attempt at a superhero battle. Finally, after we’ve grown frustrated and tired from being jerked around, the movie develops into a tragic romance that is so overblown it’ll likely draw titters from the peanut gallery and mass watch-checking from the rest.

Through it all, Will Smith stands tall and strives valiantly to entertain. He’s actually quite good here, fearlessly kidding his family-friendly image and being pretty darn winning in the process. Jason Bateman is equally on par, essentially holding the film together with his well-executed straight-man routine. On the other hand, I don’t really know what to say about Charlize Theron. Half of the film consists of her giving ridiculously over-the-top reaction shots in the presence of Hancock, hammering home that a “Big Plot Twist” is on the horizon. I half expected her to jump off the screen and plop down into the seat next to mine, where she could then nudge me knowingly in the ribs every ten seconds. Her work in the latter part of the film, when she is actually given dialogue, is passable, but was overshadowed by the story sending my Preposterousness Meter screaming into the red.

By all appearances, Hancock wreaks of the work of a desperate studio who, needing a July 4th tent-pole film, have taken an edgy comedy and cut and slashed it into something resembling bland family entertainment. When one observes the abundance of plot-threads and ideas shoe-horned into such a scant running time, you know something is rotten in Tinseltown. If anyone ever decides to assemble a detailed behind-the-scenes expose on the backstage politics going on during Hancock’s production, it’ll be a worthwhile Amazon purchase.

Hancock is a complete belly-flop of a film that lacks a single justification for its own existence. This season has already seen two superior super-powered epics in Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, and with the impending Dark Knight and Hellboy II, Hancock is utterly outclassed. At this point in the game, the super-hero film bar is at such a lofty level that franchise hopefuls have a zero margin for error. The people behind Hancock shot themselves in the foot the second they fired it out of the gate half-cocked.

1.5 out of 5

I agree. I think it's a rather generic superhero movie that provides nothing new, and, what it does provide, isn't really on par with anything that's been done recently.

 

[Episode29]

This film rocked from start to finish, for those who are thinking about seeing it make sure you do and ignore the critics. This is a film you can only decide you like by yourself, I dont understand how people can call crap like Superma Returns and Wanted good films when Hancock is much better than both those films. I am not saying there are not elements that can be fixed in the film but this film was extremly enjoyable and I hope it tears up the box office. Hopefully we get a sequel with a more polished script and a longer running time, Hancock 2 rise of the gods.

LOL. Actually, Hancock is not better than either film. Hell, it's not even in Blade 3 territory.

And a better title would be: Hancock 2: Fall Of The Ticket Sales.

 

[November Rain]

Hancock falls in the middle of superhero adaptations from the glossy comic look of say spiderman to the gritty realism of something along the lines of ang lee's hulk or maybe even closer to unbreakable.

Although I believe they could have done more with the narrative to flesh out all of the lead characters, as well as hancock's relationship with the lil kid as well as not give the impression they were the last of their kind (i.e. hancock and the bird is left to deal with a nemises who could not turn mortal and die while his followers continued to attack them).

however this may have upset the pacing in what i saw was a decent overall movie experience, I'd give it an 8 but the general public are going to eat this film up just like iron man in my eyes.

 

[SatEL]

LOL. Actually, Hancock is not better than either film. Hell, it's not even in Blade 3 territory.

And a better title would be: Hancock 2: Fall Of The Ticket Sales.

Its funny you should say that because I predict it will earn more than both, fall of the ticket sale? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh will Smith, superhero, holiday period, LMAO this film is going to chew up the box office. Hopefully Hancock 2 comes soon.

 

[TNC9852002]

I disagree with that, it's like saying a pie cannot be terrible if the last quarter is filled with maggots, sure it was fine at first, but your still walking out of there disgusted.

That's not a good analogy there!

-TNC

 

[TNC9852002]

I completely disagree, the last third should be the payoff and if the payoff doesn't match the setup I always see the fail as terrible. Signs is the perfect example, was completely into the movie the whole time, it was very tense, then you see the aliens and the entire movie falls apart from there. The last third is the most important part of the movie. Many medicore movies have been saved by great final acts, while plenty of great movies have been ruined by horrible final acts.

I liked Signs and I liked the ending. Even if I didn't, I can't hide the fact that everything else was worth watching.

-TNC

 

[RickO'Connell]

The fan boys may not like this movie but the General Audience will eat this up & give it it's budget back