As far as super hero movies go, Hancock was actually full of surprises. None of the surprises being any good, but surprises none the less.
Will Smith plays John Hancock (the nurse at the hospital asked him for his "John Hancock"...get it?) a drunken super hero asshole who can't seem to do anything right who, after meeting a PR guy named Ray Embry, decides straighten out his life and be the super hero the world needs.
And that's the plot... except not at all.
After all of this takes place, something happens that completely changes everything about this movie. I won't tell you what it is and ruin the surprise, but it happens an hour into the the 90 minute movie and it manages to ruin any salvageable piece of entertainment. It felt like a cheap sequel plot.
Hancock is poorly written. The ongoing gags and cheap "potty mouth" humor get old fast. Everything you would expect a foul mouthed Hancock to say, he does. All the slapstick humor is expected and unoriginal. Again bringing about the feeling of a cheap sequel.
If you have ever seen anything directed by Peter Berg, you know what this movie looks like. Long drawn out, out of focus and off center shots. I normally enjoy his work, however with Hancock it seemed out of place. He would use his signature shooting styles when the tone of the movie dropped below fun super hero movie and into obvious drama making the shooting styles repetitive.
The only thing missing from this Berg flick is an entire soundtrack composed by Explosions in the Sky. Instead in the opening action sequence we are treated to an edited version of the 6 year old hit single by Ludacris - "Move Bitch". Awesome.
One saving grace (and I use that term only because I don't know of another one to use) of Hancock is the decent amount of strange cameos. The young Michael Myers from the Rob Zombie's Halloween makes an appearance, David from Roseanne shows up, Lieutenant Jim Dangle from Reno 911 pops up, and DayDay from Next Friday comes in at the end. I'm sure there are more, but you get my point.
As an original feature length motion picture, Hancock fails. It is hardly original and a little hard to watch. It is a poor choice for the one film a year Will Smith, but I'm sure he still made millions. So he can just toss it in the Oops Pile along with Men in Black II, Bad Boys II, Hitch, Shark Tale, Wild Wild West, and that one episode of Fresh Prince where he won't date Queen Latifah because of her weight.
I give Hancock 2 Will Smith summer movies, out of 5.
-Dude, That Movie Sucked
3 comments:
yeah man, i wanted to see this movie when they had the smaller teaser trailer of him jumping around and throwing the whale and shit in his street clothes. but as soon as i saw the dumbass jumpsuit that he puts on, i decided that i'm not going to waste my time or money. i dig will smith and his acting but i'm not exactly a superhero movie guy. cheers!
I knew that was the little boy from the Halloween movie!!
And Hitch was good. And so that episode with the queen. Ya ass
ah i wanted to see this too
you gave owen wilson a 3/5 and will smith a 2/5
damn you
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