Hancock

I’ll give points to the filmmakers for offering a skewed view of superheroes in this movie. Aside from the funny gaffes you’ve seen in the previews, the film delves a bit into the psychological effects of being the only one of your kind on a planet – and how courageously saving the world isn’t necessarily adequate reward in itself when one thinks they’re different. (The conspicuous placement of references to Frankenstein were a bit heavy-handed though, people. He thinks he’s a monster. Yeah we get it. Would you also like to have a scene where he looks at the back of his hand, and then the back of Jason Bateman’s to reveal – shock of shocks – that he’s black?! ) But then the filmmakers try to make a whole new film, I believe, and that’s where they lost me. What was it you said he actually was? Why did you say his invincibility is waning? And how come, again, he’s invincible until you tell him he’s not – like in the cartoons where the coyote can stay airborne after he’s run off a cliff as long as he doesn’t look down? He’s been in LA all this time without incident … but as soon as he discovers the “what” that ultimately threatens his superhero-ness is in LA too, suddenly it’s a danger to him? I think this may not be what anyone expects it to be, and I’m not sure what to advise you to expect. So the best I can do is say if you want to go to the movie, do so without thinking you know what it will be. Then just see for yourself what it is. Verdict: Movie Rental if You Must