A Mediocre Movie

Rating: 5/10 (7 July 2008)

I had a high expectation for the movie after seeing the trailers. With the premise of a drunken superhero who found much difficulty trying to fit in a society that hated him, which was mainly due to the damages he had caused during his "grateful" assistance.
Sadly, the movie failed to live up to the expectation. It did started off well, with it's portrayal of a troubled alcoholic superhero which was pretty interesting and funny at times. The cast, Will Smit and Jason Bateman, did an excellent job for their performance as i pretty much enjoyed it. However, as the film continues, the substance somehow gets a little too repetitive.
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However, the film main weakness was the sudden twist during the second act. It was totally unbelievable and felt rather rushed. It was from this points onwards, that the film starts to deviate from its original idea. There was not much explanation for the twist and it felt that the audience should just believe what the film had stated. Worst still was the ending, where it was kind of stupid. The action sequence were not the standard we expect from a superhero movie. It was not stylish enough like Spiderman or Iron Man and were rather short and very quickly paced. The camera shots were rather weird too, it was too quick, shaky and overall pretty hard to view.
I won't say that this film was not totally awful, as it did have some pretty good moment such as the jail scene and the change in the character of Hancock from a bad-attitude, alcoholic superhero whom everybody hates to much better attitude superhero, whom everyone likes. Jason Bateman did an excellent job as a PR executive trying to improve Hancock image.
But the movie was not very good as well. Its a US$150 million dollars production and what we get was simply a mediocre movie experience. It did had an excellent formula but it was poorly executed and failed to deliver the substance it promised.