What is with the closeups?

Rating: 3/10 (6 July 2008)

I'm glad somebody else finally mentioned it because I thought I was the only one noticing this.
Is it me, or is 90% of the movie consisting of extreme closeups of the actors? And when I mean closeups I mean CLOSEUPS, to the point that only their eyes and nose and part of their mouths appear. It became very annoying. I thought it was just something that would go away after the very first closeup of Hancock, but no it just continued on and on and on.
Lots of other things wrong with this movie. The jokes fell flat (especially with that whole a$$hole thing, a clear ripoff of Back to the future), the action was weak (other than the brief two-minute fight between Hancock and another individual), and the movie constantly felt as if it was being pulled in too many directions. It couldn't decide whether it was a drama, a comedy, a science fiction movie, etc. Basically what you saw in the trailer were all the "momentous" moments of the movie, everything else was just boring filler material.
The only reason this gets a 3 is because as always Will Smith looks like he put in as much effort as possible into making this something. I've got to give credit where credit is due and say that Will always looks like he gives 110% to any project, and this was no exception.