Handcock not your typical hero movie.

Rating: 9/10 (7 July 2008)

With movie tickets being so high these days, I like to pick a movie to take the family to see that is "worth" it. So far we have seen Ironman, Indiana Jones, WALL-E, and Handcock.
We started not to see this movie based on the bad press that people and critics have been giving it. From my perspective, they are full of crap. This was a really good movie.
The movie Handcock seemed to fly by and it was over too soon. This, to me, is a mark of a good movie. It was funny, and not your typical hero story. I am hoping that Will Smith will agree to do a sequel, as I think we have more to find out about Will Smith's character, Handcock.
Bateman did a very good job, and keeps his Lilly white type character (Juno), with a bit of an edge (a.k.a. Axe man).
The symbol on the moon was a nice touch by the film makers, Handcock is far too homophobic to give Ray a hug and a thank you for saving his life.
I hope we will see more of Handcock and Embrey characters interact in a future movie.
As for the list of movies we've seen, Handcock was easily as good as Ironman, perhaps better because the story was less predictable. Certainly better than the rest in my list.