LOVED IT! Super-heroes and Depth - Something for Everyone

Rating: 9/10 (2 August 2008)

If you are someone who prefers their entertainment say something beyond see Spot, see Spot run, you'll most likely enjoy this movie. For the men, it has great action. There's plenty of destruction of things and lots of bullets flying. Instead of being Batman, cookie-cutter good and evil though, this film takes a look at who we are as a society and how we (super-hero or not) can get the way men sometimes do - less than perfect.
Will Smith portrays a dis-illusioned super-hero who is all alone. Like many in society have chosen to, he tries to sweep away the loneliness with alcohol until one day his path crosses a down and out PR guy who tries to help him. Having someone who actually cares about him, Hancock tries to make amends to his drunken past and in the process a twist you don't see coming is revealed.
The story is sprinkled lightly with some history and in the end we learn that coping can sometimes merely be a matter of understanding the world you live in and and why each of us are here.
I loved the whole super-hero thing. Let's face it - as a man, Will Smith is hot! What makes him even hotter in this movie is the fact that the dream of super-hero powers is blended with the responsibilities we all have to face, co-existing as we were meant to and how that sometimes goes very wrong.
If you like your entertainment to be bolstered by giving you something to think about, this movie's the one for you. It's a perfect date movie - enough destruction and he-man antics for the men with a deeper message for the women.