A bit annoying

Rating: 6/10 (19 July 2008)

I recently won some movie tickets through work and with mum over, what better time was there to hit the pics. For once there were a few decent options to pick from, but fate (due to times) chose "Hancock".
The movie begins with Hancock (Smith, in his most challenging role since "Wild,Wild West") being woken on a sidewalk bench by a kid to go to the latest emergency- some punks shooting at everything in sight during a highway chase. We're quickly alerted to his amazing skills in a full-on scenario. He catches the baddies, obviously, and comes up with a creative way of stopping them. In the process he causes of $7million damage and this feat causes the city to put out a warrant for his arrest.
Between the event and the warrant being issued, Hancock comes across Ray (Bateman, in his best work since "Valerie"), a struggling PR guy who gets saved by Hancock in a near train accident. Ray befriends Hancock and goes to work trying to improve Hancock's image. When the warrant is issued, Ray convinces Hancock this scenario is a perfect chance to build a new Hancock. Hancock reluctantly agrees and starts to implement Ray's plans.
Will it work? See it to find out.
The movie started really well and the storyline was intriguing....and then about halfway through there was a twist which was really annoying and took the story somewhere I decided I didn't want it to go about 3 seconds into it. What could have been a really cleverly played out story just got wasted. It's almost like the original writer died at the halfway point of the script and some comic book nerd was put in charge and consequently derailed the movie.
Potentially brilliant, but just OK in the end.