My Favorite Original Super Hero Films

Rating: 7/10 (13 April 2020)

A fun superhero movie with serious Michael Bay vibes, Hancock is a great Will Smith performance and a great example of the superhero sub-genre.
Peter Berg is a pretty great director, I think. The man knows how to do action. He proved this dramatically with the deliriously OTT The Rundown, which was lots of fun. He channels Michael Bay here, with the signature saturated look and big explosions and appetite for destruction.
Will Smith is as good as ever, and Jason Bateman is good as a straight man, though I've seen him in funnier roles. Charlize Theron is great too.
The action scenes are great. The opening freeway scene, the bank scene, the city fight scene, and the hospital fight were all great and very well done. The prison scene is great too, and funny. The violence here is surprisingly brutal and graphic for a PG-13 superhero film, and apparently it had to be cut a few times to obtain a PG-13.
It's a pretty entertaining movie, especially since it's an original superhero flick and not a comic book or video game adaptation. I marginally recommend it.