Movie-Hancock

For the most part, critics were not too kind to Hancock (2008), surprising, because usually whatever Will Smith does they swoon over.

I thought it was better than most gave it credit for. Smith plays a super hero who is not very good at being a super hero. He is a lush, he gets pissed off, he is reckless and he does not know how to control his power very well causing a lot of damage to infrastructure around him.

Enter Jason Bateman, a PR guy, who wants to help Hancock overcome public antipathy towards him. Bateman as Ray Embrey is convinced he can do a makeover on Hancock's image. But with Embrey comes his wife, played by Charlize Theron, and this is the weakest part of the movie.

You see, instead of letting Hancock stay unknowing of who he is, waking up with amnesia, the writers came up with a bad back story with him and Theron once being Olympian gods, and they are the last survivors...blah blah blah.

The rest of the movie works really well, but this part, the last third of the movie, really does not. Maybe that is why critics did not like it, and I can see that. But the rest of the movie worked so well, I have trouble condemning all of it.