In the end it amounts to no name and no number. No distinguishing or remarkable characteristics, just Will Smith playing dishevelled.

Rating: 6/10 (7 July 2008)

An individual possessing superpowers who isn't exactly morally respectable is a great idea. If in their wisdom the makers had decided to expand upon that and excise their half-baked attempt at staging a mythical romance to occupy the movie's second half, then I feel that Hancock could have been a lot more enjoyable. Besides the fact that the love story we're given doesn't suit the whole 'cynical perspective' an awful lot and feels like a misguided and abortive attempt to please all of the people all of the time, the fundamental basics of how it's written just don't make sense...
They're supposed to weaken one another, and yet she's still able to throw him through a window (or whatever it is that she does when they first get close) after having been around him a good deal of time, already. Funny how you're able to summon up these feats of strength in one instance, and yet conveniently be near enough helpless at a time when the writers decide that their audience will need some 'peril'. To me, this discrepancy is an elementary flaw that isn't adequately explained away, and smacks of a storyline cobbled together hastily to meet a demographically-targeted release date.
I hadn't mentioned the misgivings of mine to any of my companions on the night that we saw it only because I assumed it was just me that found it so ridiculously, glaringly obvious. I'm happy to know now from other confused and disappointed users of IMDb that it wasn't I who had lost the plot - Hancock managed to get into that state all by itself.
It's fun on a big scale when all it's trying to do is invert standard heroic situations to gain laughs. When it gracelessly tried to switch gears and suddenly become solemn, that's about when I stopped wanting to fly along for the ride.