Wednesday, July 02, 2008

REVIEW: Hancock

The critics really trashed this film, so I went in wanting to see if it was really all that bad. And guess what?  I rather liked it.

I think people’s problem is they went in expecting either an action movie or a comedy, It’s really neither, though it has elements of both. It’s wha they call a dramedy. It seems to have been made by people who are not comics geeks, but it actually has some good action bits I haven’t seen in a superhero movie before. It’s also a unique story about the “last superhuman” and how he tries to straighten out his life after becoming reviled by the public. Along the way he finds out about himself and his forgotten past. It’s not a bad movie at all. Could it have been better? Sure. But I think it did what it set out to do.

If you go in not expecting too much you may end up pleased, like I was.