Will Smith Barely Keeps This One From Being Complete Trash

Rating: 5/10 (1 September 2008)

I was really pumped for Hancock when I first saw the commercials for it. Will Smith playing a disgruntled superhero whom starts to try to be a good hero, what could go wrong? Well... where should I start? First of all, I was expecting and funny comedy, but got an attempt at being a serious superhero film not based on a comic book, but fell flat. The concept itself was good, but the execution was just plan poorly done. I genuinely enjoyed the film in the beginning, Will Smith was witty and funny, but then it fell into the same old rut with an stupid story that almost anyone you pull off the street could have written. It would have been better if they had just stuck with the whole "superhero trying to do the right thing but messing up" idea instead of dragging it out into some bull crap story that failed to be even relatively plausible in any sense. I was so disappointed with everything that followed a certain point when they needed Hancock once again. Also, it took the movie so long to get into the real plot that it had me thinking that we were already in the main part of the story, then it just switched up on me, leaving me confused and annoyed.
The movie's saving grace, the beginning. Right from when a kid wakes up Hancock to have him stop some robbers and Hancock completely tells him off, it's funny and enjoyable. Will Smith plays his role well, just like he always does and the rest of the cast does an okay job at going about their roles, none of which are academy award winners, but still good enough.
In the end, a dirt poor story that hardly makes any logical sense kills and buries this movie. However, for some reason, just because the movie has Will Smith, it is almost impossible to not at least partially enjoy the film... so let's go with a 5 out of 10, with out Will Smith, it would've definitely been a 2 or 3.