Good beginning and premise and then, disaster

Rating: 5/10 (3 July 2008)

I love Will Smith. I love Charlize Theron and Justin Bateman as actors. But this movie left me so cold I didn't wait till the extras after the credits cause I'd had enough. This movie is typical of all the recent Hollywood movies...it suffers from bad writing. Hancock has an excellent premise, antisuperhero who doesn't know what to do with the fact that he has been given special abilities. In most of the other superhero stories some mentor helps the hero learn who he is, but in this movie it's an Ad man, which is kind of cute. Will Smith does a great job as the antihero so what's the problem. The problem is the unimaginative writing that ruins a good experience by writing in some ridiculous relationship and back story for the characters. My god I just wanted to walk out when this whole stupid story emerged. But I suffered through till the end hoping something better would come of the mistake...that they would take if somewhere wonderful, but of course it didn't happen and I was left mad, empty and knowing that there would be a sequel.