0157. i swear to God or whoever's sitting up there, these days the movies just get weirder and weirder... first there's the bullet curving wanted, then there's the highly sexed up zohan and now behold! a drunkard asshole of a superhero, hancock.
granted that it will be unrealistic due to will smith's superhuman nature, the film actually tried to draw the audience into the personal side a superhero; how he might feel one fine day, waking up in the mid day, hungover, lonely, unappreciated, amnesic and whatever. keyword: tried.
it was barely just a slight touch and go, before i could begin to imagine, picture and digest the inner world of hancock, i was blown away by the story's mainstay twist. oh well. the twist itself wasnt something THAT unexpected, but it dragged in the rest of the plot, however inhuman.
on closer scrutiny at his professional superhero career, hancock is just like the direct opposite of batman; an overpowered being against mere humans with puny guns and bazookas compared to a grapple hooking freak cosplaying as a giant bat. at least some of batman's enemies have hints of superpowers, artificially induced or otherwise.
but the similarity is clear between them. in short, it's like how five for fighting sings in their hit number, superman: "it's not easy to be me".
the jokes were rather easy to catch in this one, pretty straightforward compared to those in zohan which were either dirty, racist or a distasteful combination of both. bah. i dont even want to review it. action wise... anticipate a lot of collateral damage!
hancock gets 3 sneezes upon 5 from me. 3.5 actually but i took 0.5 off due to a lack of presentable eye candy (cos charlize theron isnt exactly hawt to me) and for having a ridiculously short run time of only 93 minutes!
ps: there is a mid credits scene. stick around for it. guess they figured that no one is patient enough to stay for post credits scenes!
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