A boring and jumbled mess... devoid of wonder

Rating: 3/10 (7 March 2009)

For some reason i couldn't quite believe this were as bad as people made it out to be. Wilsson as a superhero that is a complete jackass! Comon! That cant be a turkey right? At least its gotta have some great scenes buried within. Right? Unfurtanatly, not. It certainly has its share of interesting aspects, with the story and premise, and after a start, it neither felt very good, and neither that terribly, and i was just waiting for things to kick up a notch.
It just descends. One of the most annoying things about this flick is that i cant quite understand why it doesn't work. Maybe because Wilssons so intentionally outrageous character comes of as flat. Its at most mildly entertaining, mostly just bothersome. I think i start to doubt him as an actor. He tries hard and is mostly i likable fellow, but he seems to have a problem with fleshing his characters out, its all well in flicks like Independence Day but when he is supposed to be Ali ( as in that other film) or Hancock he fails miserably. Or maybe its the director who messed up and couldn't use him rightly. I honestly started to blank out by the end of the film because it all felt like such a unlikeable and boring mess, so its hard to comment on the directing of it, but it was probably both the directing AND the plot that faulted here. Its DOES try to shake up things and bring in a serious tone but like everything here it just felt gimmicky.