Could have been better

Rating: 8/10 (7 July 2008)

Hancock is a really interesting movie.It presents your ordinary superhero with his amazing abilities to fly, kick and fight with the bad guys, but in a different kind of view. The main idea of it is to show you that even the one that are chosen to be great, to be amazing, to protect us, can still have problems, which are by the way human like - drinking, failed marriages etc.Most of the time you will enjoy the jokes Hancock is dropping, because they are just the old fashioned way. It seem to me that the producer didn't want to risk with something really extravagant, because the script was already jumping on the line of fondness and dislike. And maybe this is one of the main drawbacks, because there is no bad guy, that has a beef with Hancock, actually there is no motive at all, there is no movement that can give you the idea that our problematic superhero has an opponent. Although Theron seems to show in really pragmatic way that she is the bad guy, her role has been chosen as a more of pole guide that tries to give a hint what is this story about. In other words: you have a picture, but without frame, and we know that without some of the basic components, you can't have a full masterpiece. As final words, Hancock had a great potential to develop as a blockbuster, but its poor execution forced him back, and it ended as a production you will not enjoy seeing again.