A new type of super hero

Rating: 8/10 (3 July 2008)

I will make a strong recommendation that you go see Hancock and make up your own mind. I read some of the early reviews and comments and I was expecting to be disappointed. What I ended up seeing was a great entertaining movie which was really about 'fate' and however much we try to escape our destiny it has a strange way of bringing us back to it.
Don't look for super evil villains, meteors from space, or quick costume changes. Hancock is a new and slightly more human super hero, perhaps the truest representation of a comic book hero we have ever seen. He does not fight for justice and the American way. If there is any fault in the film we are never really told what motivates Hancock to do what he does, but we do know he's alone.
I enjoyed Hancock, and more importantly my 11 year old son enjoyed it.