'Hancock' crashes and burns (Hancock (DVD))

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Product:	Hancock (DVD)
Date:	06/08/08 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: Will Smith is always an entertaining lead, Jason Batemen provides good backup

Disadvantages: Completely derails during the second half, unexplainable twists, way too many holes

Warning: The following review contains spoilers, as most of this movie is hidden from the marketing campaign.

'Hancock' starts off as a pretty enjoyable and even somewhat unique summer vehicle. As usual, Will Smith makes for an entertaining lead actor and the first couple of action set pieces are just fine. On top of that, most of the humor is actually working. Unfortunately, studio intervention and ten years of production hoopla completely destroy the flick starting at the midway point. It completely leaves the first half behind and suddenly centers around gods and superheroes as well as a scandalous love triangle. Then all of a sudden you've got unexplainable super storms, a huge prison break to give the film a villain, and unexplainable phenomenon when Will and Charlize are in the same area that damns the movie with way too many plot holes. Seriously, if Hancock was previously believed to be invincible, what would these mortal prison scums do to hurt him? Besides the first 30-45 minutes, Hancock is a real train wreck of a movie.

Summary: 'Hancock' should've stuck to the movie promised in the trailer, but sadly goes way off track.