Hancock

By Sandor Hugert

Once again, Will Smith is lighting up the movies on the July 4^th weekend.  This movie is not up to standards with other great Will Smith movies such as Men in Black, I Robot, and Independence Day.  Hancock could be separated into three different parts as the movie makes big changes every thirty minutes in a movie that is only one hour and thirty minutes long.  The first thirty minutes is great as it is just a straight out comedy movie that makes fun of all the superhero movies that were recently released.  The comedy is great, but in the next hour of the movie everything just fell apart.  In the second thirty minutes, it becomes just a normal action movie, which is okay except for the fact that it is better in other superhero movies such as Iron Man, and the tagline for Hancock is that he is not your average superhero.  In the last thirty minute the movie just fell apart with a twist that was obvious from the beginning but I will not spoil it here.  They tried to add some drama into the last thirty minutes which did not fit well, and in the end they made Hancock just an average superhero just like every other superhero movie out there.  Overall, this movie could have been great if they just kept the comedy from the first thirty minutes, but instead they tried to make Hancock an average superhero, so the whole thing just kind of felt short in the end.

Score:  6 out of 10