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Hancock (2008)

When the words 'Will Smith' show up anywhere you will always be intrigued. Not just because he is one of the greatest people around, but because most if not all of his movies are successful to a very high standard. Now, when you put him in any role you can tell that the role was perfect for him, which is the way it's been with all his other movies. So that's why I believe that he was a perfect candidate to play 'John Hancock' a drunk and troubled superhero currently aiding the people of L.A. In one of his many travels he saves Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman), a PR guy, who despite several warnings decides to help Hancock restore his name and become the typical superhero you would expect him to be. Of course with any movie you can expect some difficulties will occur, which do eventually.

The movie follows closely as a man rises from zero to hero, so it's almost like your typical superhero origin movie. Despite several thousand critics complaining and moaning how the movie wasn't very good, I have to disagree completely with those people. The film is funny, it has drama, it has action, it has a good script, it has a decent cast...need I go on. And despite the critics the film has risen to a huge success because everyone wanted to go see it and everybody loved it. This then begs the question, is there something the critics aren't telling us? People seem to enjoy it, but the cynical rejected mutation of mankind, also known as the critic, seems to think otherwise. They also had some issue with 'I am legend' at some point. Now, I'm not going to start that its a whole race thing when it could be quite a number of things. Maybe they are just getting fed up with Will Smith. It's not uncommon for there to be too much of a good thing, and maybe that's what this is. It is too much of a good thing, which therefore implies that 'Hancock' is a good movie.

I find it fun to reexamine a critics review and change it into something else completely.

8.2/10