Betrays its Own New Formula !

Rating: 6/10 (25 February 2011)

A romantic comedy mixed with the superhero movie. OK. No.. Not OK!
Among the superhero craze during the 2000s, this movie earns being so special duo to its different formula. Director (Peter Berg) tried to be as different by caring about the characters more than the explosions. The always shaking camera, the many close-ups.. all of that worked in terms of being more sensitive and less action driven. Though I HATED the endless rounds around Hancock's face after the bank's crisis; they went on and on dizzily. (Will Smith) dazzled me in a real sane performance, one of his best, as drunken loser superman, showing the rising of the "man" behind the "super" seriously and comically as well (You have to enjoy watching him saying "Good Job"!). However, the movie's biggest mistake is betraying itself in the third act.
In a foolish way, not a novel one that befits the novelty of the whole thing, the movie deprived its time of comedy. Till the funny moment at the kitchen, then the big "hurricane" fight in the street, the comedy was on, along with the romance, the action, and the fantasy. After that, exactly in the somewhat long sequence of the hospital, (Charlize Theron)'s heavily teary performance, the very weak evil men, and the detestable bloody violence; turned the movie suddenly into something other than itself. So we felt wrong, with darker taste; as if it's another movie; too sullen, more melodramatic and less attractive!
For simple example, when the viewers watched how the lead dealt with the 2 bully criminals in the prison, they laughed. But when the movie makes them both the ruthless killers later, the comic situation loses its soul, becoming just ugly.
At the final 5 minutes, the things don't get any better, on the contrary; it's messy whereas the heroine chooses someone while we all know that she loves another more??, then drawing on the moon??, and a last shot with one thief re-says the same insult which we all know that the lead hates?? This is unfunny and unnecessary!
Some said that the surprises of the third act are the problem. I believe not. I loved those surprises very much. It's rather the disturbance that hit the formula. Now I understood why that script was refused by production companies for 9 years. It's not being different, it's being dissonant!
They wanted to make totally another superhero movie, and they did. The thing is.. it wasn't totally even. 2/3 of it realizes its ambitious formula, but as a whole, it ends up as uneven ambitious movie. It's where I hate to say "mediocre" about a movie that is not based on comics, not about CGI mainly, not having usual story, and not having (Tobey Spiderman Maguire)!