The cure for the common man.

Rating: 6/10 (11 July 2018)

In the changing world, we come up with different jobs every day. One of these jobs is a professional date doctor. Main duty of this job is to help men get the women they love. Of course, it is based on a lot of truths and facts. For example, a date doctor will never help you get laid with a woman. If you can convince the date doctor that you are in love with that woman, he helps you get her by giving you a bunch of advices, tips and tricks. It is an honest and a discreet job. The main guy in the film, Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith) has this job. He is also the narrator of the film. The film has a dynamic start with Hitch explaining us a bunch of statistics regarding human interactions and how women brain functions. He says that 60% of all human communication is non-verbal body language, 30% is your tone and, based on these statistics, 90% of the things you are saying are not coming out of your mouth. He claims that women don't know what they want until they see it, and a date doctor's job is to make them see it. The opening scene is like a corporation training about soft skills.
The dynamic explanations in the beginning reveal the clues about what can be expected from "Hitch." It is a funny romantic comedy and the story is about one of the most valid subjects of human nature, which manages to entertain you most of the time. It is very important to guess what you can expect from a film like this. It has nothing to do with reality. People in the film has no real problems. "Hitch" is one of those films where you get to see the American Dream. The scenes are superficial and conversations are by the book. "Hitch" can be entertaining if you watch it without expecting anything from it. The good thing about it is that, even if you fall asleep in the middle, you will still understand pretty much everything. The only thing that makes difference is the performance of Will Smith. He has certain charisma and trust in himself as Alex Hitch, he is a highly intellectual man with principles. Will Smith has no difficulty in reflecting these traits to the audience. I have always admired him because he has certain talent for overcoming hard roles in the films like Seven Pounds, I am Legend or The Pursuit of Happyness. Actually, when I think about performances I can say that Kevin James, as Albert, has some solid acting, too, and he completes Will Smith.
Even though Hitch helps a lot of single men getting their soul mates, it seems like he fails to believe in love himself. It is more or less like this in real life, too. You get best advices about relationships from single people. His relationship with Sara, who is a gossip columnist, reveals his fears and how he is afraid of something serious. In the beginning, he tries his usual lines and tricks on Sara, they actually work, but when things start to get serious, he understands the fact that what he actually believed in was not true at all. Therefore, despite all the lecture about relationships in the beginning of the film, his last line is; Basic Principle: There are none. This is a good life example under these unrealistic circumstances created by the film. I am not sure if "Hitch" has a message, but if there is one, it is the fact that only through real experiences you get to learn more about yourself.
"Hitch" manages to make you feel good about yourself. It is an easy film. It was made with a budget of $70 Million and Box Office was around $368 Million. This profit makes us understand that, people still need unrealistic films like this. It focuses on some certain things, like love, good life, beautiful women, money, and ignores everything else. Its message is not valid under no circumstances in the world we are living in. "Hitch" was released just a couple of days before Valentines Day, on February 11,2005. Even the release date tells us that "Hitch" targets certain type of audience because what it can share with you is very limited.
In my opinion, forget everything while watching "Hitch" and try to picture yourself as one of these people. The only purpose of the film is to help you feel good, and strictly from this point of view, "Hitch" is a successful romantic comedy.