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[KvP]

The reviews have been generally negative, actually. It's odd, because Will Smith "owns" 4th of July weekend. Other studios have reportedly been loathe to release their fare opposite Hancock. So it's in the peculiar position of being the only movie opening on 4th of July weekend (thus ensuring a pretty hefty initial income) but it's still expected to be a "flop".

[Dimmukane]

I actually know quite a few people who want to see it, myself included.  I've heard the last third is underwhelming, but I still think it could be a decent matinee show.  Besides that, all I want to see this summer is Wall-E (tomorrow for sure), Dark Knight, Tropic Thunder, and Pineapple Express.

[KvP]

Aren't you forgetting someone?

[Dimmukane]

For whatever reason, youtube is blocked on half of the computers at work...

[SilentJ]

Honestly I was really entertained.  Especially since I couldn't put Will Smith into the character of a washed-up superhero-type.  It was just Will Smith flying around LA.  And that was ok.

Also he adds still more snappy one-liners to his resume.

EDIT: Oh, I almost forgot.  The camera in the movie is somewhat shaky at points, and there are shots that revolve around a character a few times.  I reacted similar to how some people did to Cloverfield; I'm hoping it's because I was sitting off-center in the theater, but I felt somewhat nauseous after I left the movie.

[Dissy]

Aren't you forgetting someone?

Oh man, that was awesome.

[october1983]

The first two thirds or so actually had me thinking this was going to be the best blockbuster movie I'd seen in a while - the humour was pretty spot on, and the general parody of superhero stories was pretty much spot on, resisting the temptation to go over the top in a "Date/Epic/Disaster etc. Move" style. Unfortunately, it took itself way too seriously towards the end and the whole change in tone was horribly clunky. I don't want to give anything away, but I wish they'd just stuck to a play on traditional super hero tropes rather than trying to be clever. It just got a bit dull, really.

[Dimmukane]

Oh my god, I was forgetting someone.  Damn.

[Blue Kitty]

I was hoping that you were going to post this one

[MissAmbiguity]

Eh seriously? It really was just another action movie. I thought the ending was also really cheesy and overly dramatic. There were funny bits and it was still okay... but not worth seeing in theaters.
Mmm.

[KvP]

Just got back from it, it was pretty damn good. I went in skeptical, but it was pretty funny. The last third could've been better, but I don't feel that the drama was unearned, exactly. I'd recommend it.

[Jimmy the Squid]

I, too, just came back from seeing this film. It was a good film and I'm really happy to see a new, original idea in a film as lately everything is a remake, reboot, adaptation or some awful parody film (and as I watched one of the old Leslie Nielsen films this morning, the new parody films are all the more depressing). I liked the characters and Jason Bateman just plays his parts so well.

Unfortunately the film felt unfinished. I know I'm going to sound like a film critic but I didn't feel I knew enough about the characters, there was no real villain to speak of and I honestly didn't feel that I saw the film that I went to see. Hancock was marketed as a lighthearted, fun and all-in-all silly film about a dysfunctional superhero and then it turns into a dramatic "who-am-I?" kind of thing without any real closure. All the jokes and the one-liners were all in the previews and the pay-off for the entire thing just felt awkward. Also I didn't understand the significance of the eagle sidekick at the end. In the end I enjoyed the film but I came away from it disappointed because I didn't get what I was hoping to see, even though I really enjoyed what was delivered. I just wish that there was a bit more exposition so I could care a bit more about the characters.

[Plasticity]

I disliked this movie quite a bit. I think all of the plot devices and story ideas they used have been done many times before, and most of the acting(theron) was pretty bad. The entire second act was ridiculous, and the superhero battle between hancock and mary was terrible and out of place. the character's motivations rarely made sense, they never really acted in ways that were especially sympathetic, and there wasn't really an arc to the film outside of "Hancock learns who he is." there wasn't even a villain in the superhero movie, for chrissakes. Then they added those three random dudes at the end who somehow started a prison riot, escaped with a posse, and attacked him at the hospital. Did they have a purpose, or was that just some kind of porrly set up, last minute, deus ex machina? This movie was not good.

[KvP]

The whole eagle thing is the Hancock "symbol". It's on his skull cap through most of the film, and Bateman / Theron take that image and use it as his "Diamond S", so to speak, as it's emblazoned on the back of his costume. Then at the end he gets an actual eagle, sort of signifying that his transformation from nobody to superhero was complete.

[KvP]

Ron Perlman is not black. But he is old.

He probably gets mistaken for Tom Waits a lot.

[Dimmukane]

Yes, he does.  I thought Ron was in Mystery Men, or at least his brother, Lou.  Nope, it was Tom Waits.