Movie Review:Hancock

Yes It’s another Will smith movie and after the grand opening world wide its here in India. The boring weekend which actually saw the release of couple of English flicks and the not so good crap Mehbooba was expected to lighten up by this “different” superhero flicks. And so r the expectations from the most powerful man in Hollywood. The movie however doesn live up to its expectations and result in a let down for me.


The story is simple and has been tried to be complicated at times along the lines “fate doesn decide everything” and “all’s not physics”. Hancock (will smith) is an alcohol addict superhero, actually just a man with super powers whom the people don’t consider to be a hero becoz of his attitude and way of working. He doesn care about what people think of him and lives his life in a disgraceful manner. He continues saving life of people along with destroying millions of public infrastructure. One fine day he runs into Ray (Jason Bateman), A PR agent who has Charlize Theron as his hubby.He is determined to change Hancock’s public image and convinces Hancock to play along with him. Hancock goes to jail and does learn the art of decency and actually becomes a people-loving superhero until he meets one of his kinds. He comes to know about his centuries long life and the movie moves into a sloppy climax.

The good part of the movie is that it’s not another comic book superhero tale. It depicts superhero in a new form. Will smith is able to bring life into the character but gets monotonous at times. There r moments of fun but they r really restricted and cheesy. Acting is just about fine from rest of the characters. The movie is good if compared to the desi ones but doesn live up to the Hollywood expectations with a useless story line which gets into a literal crap in the second half. The movie especially the second half doesn get right into ur head and all u wish is the movie to end and it does end abruptly with a useless climax. The direction and the screenplay are not that good to watch out for and all in all it appears to be a useless flick with will smith only being the reason to watch out for.

To Go or Not-All the superhero lovers shud go and watch .A tp(timepass) for the rest and I TRULY suggest to give a Hindi version(I haven’t seen) a try coz it appears to have better comic dialogues than the original flick.

My rating-1.5/5