Hancock - Movie Review

*Spoilers to follow..*

Oh Hancock, what a great movie you could have been. Your star actor Will Smith is always so charismatic in every movie he's been in and we know he can do action movies. Bad Boys 1 and 2, I Am Legend, I Robot? All great action movies (alright I Am Legend was at least half decent..), so we know it isn't your fault. How about your co-star? Jason Batemon? No of course it's not your fault, you know how to play the straight man, just look at Arrested Development (a favorite show of mine.) Who could have possibly made a great idea like Hancock into such a disappointment? The female role played by Charlize Theron! You ruined this perfectly good summer blockbuster with your sappy drama!..Oh God! How could you?!

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Alright alright, obviously it wasn't her fault. She was just filling the female role, and for most of the scenes she was in she did a very good job. But of course this was all in the first half of the movie. The first half of this movie is exactly what you would expect from what the trailers (up to a week before they showed the new ones) were showing. I didn't even mind getting lied to in the movie. In the trailer you see a great scene where Hancock tosses a beached whale back into the ocean. A noble act..had it not hit a boat on it's way there. Now I thought this scene was going to be one out of many of Will Smith's antics as the once drunk superhero. But no, it's not. Instead the director Peter Berg (who made The Kingdom..a pretty good movie) decided that he would reveal these antics to Hollywood's new best friend...Youtube. God how I'm sick of Youtube or Myspace or Facebook or whatever showing up in movies. Har har. I get it. You know what idiots are into these days. Get over yourself and show me some good actions scenes.

Other than that little complaint the movie up until Hancock shows up as a sober superhero is just awesome. Everyone is doing their job great. That is..until the plot twist. Yes, the little twist that took Hancock and turned it into another wannabe movie. The audience finds out that Jason's movie wife Charlize has the same powers (if not greater) than Hancock. The movie's reason for this? Well you see, they were both Angels created long ago with many others, built in pairs to be complete soul mates. But you see, it isn't such a happy situation as it would sound. Because when the two are together they are no more powerful than any mere mortal. Leading to problems with people in society and after one such incident, Hancock was left half dead in Florida with the storytellers best friend, amnesia. The only way for Mary Embry (Charlize Theron)to save her destined love was to go as far away from him as possible. Maybe it wouldn't have been as bad in another movie, but this wasn't what I expected out of Hancock. The finale, for instance, isn't this big extravaganza that every other superhero movie has had already this summer. It's instead a weak showdown with the main villain (I guess..) of the movie, Red Parker (Eddie Marsan), who is just a normal bank robber that Hancock foils after he becomes sober(and he also takes his hand in a hilarious scene.)

This is probably the worst sin this movie could have pulled. Not having a main villain that is worthy of the superhero you're rooting for. Where is my Obadiah Stane from Iron Man? Where is my Abomination from The Incredible Hulk? Where is my Joker from Batman?!..

Sidd: "Where is my Lex Luther?!"

Sigh..this is sadly just half a movie and I can really say I only half enjoyed it.

Rating: 2/5
Pros: Great lead actor, some good action scenes, funny if anything else.
Cons: The entire second half of the movie. Lack of super villain.