Hancock - has anyone seen it?

Has anyone seen Hancock yet? It's not getting very good reviews, although they say that Will Smith is good, as usual.

I'd love to see a mini-spoiler-free-review.

Not yet. Tomorrow with the gf and her kids though.

I'm thinking of sneaking out in an hour or so and seeing the movie.

I haven't seen it yet. Probably next weekend. Tonight it will be Wanted with my wife.

I heard one review say that it redeemed Smith for I Am Legend.

A friend of mine saw it last night. She said she enjoyed the movie and that it was better than she expected.

just got back from it

i enjoyed it, and my ten year old son enjoyed it, and my wife and my 15 year old daughter did too....so i guess a good spread of ages and tastes and everyone thought it was good

maybe a bit edited and seemed fairly short

good to very good, but not great

I keep reading a lot of bad reviews of this movie, but they all seem to be hoping for something this movie wasn't suppose to be. One of the major complaints I see in these reviews is that Hancock isn't your average do-gooder. Well, duh. It seems like these reviewers were expecting a super hero movie, but from the movie trailers, it is apparent that Hancock is an Anti-Hero.

So I was wondering, for those that have seen the movie, is it anything like the TV series HEROES? Because that is sort of the feeling I get. An average person awakens with these super-human powers, and has to learn to deal with it. He was an average person first, so he would have his faults like any of us (he has bad days, he swears on occassion, he has vices or addictions).

Am I off base here, or were the trailers at all misleading as most of these negative reviews would lead us to believe? I'd like to know before I go see it...

TheNovaLord said:

maybe a bit edited and seemed fairly short

good to very good, but not great

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I saw it last night and got the same impression. The trailers really don't give an indication about the story in the movie.

The story itself is sorta sad, actually.

Screw the reviews. It's a darned good movie. Strong language, a bit of violence beyond cartoonish (lots of cartoonish stuff, too) and perhaps not for younger children. They totally managed to preserve the surprises the movie holds. I think the trailers might lead one to believe that the movie has an identity crisis but I would claim that it knows exactly what it is doing and does it well. It is a story with many levels and reviewers who feel cheated because they got a different kind of superhero movie, and not what they expected, should get over themselves. If you are thinking of seeing it, read no more reviews and see it now before someone loose lipped knucklehead spoils parts of it for you.

Mark said:

They totally managed to preserve the surprises the movie holds. I think the trailers might lead one to believe that the movie has an identity crisis but I would claim that it knows exactly what it is doing and does it well. It is a story with many levels and reviewers who feel cheated because they got a different kind of superhero movie, and not what they expected, should get over themselves. If you are thinking of seeing it, read no more reviews and see it now before someone loose lipped knucklehead spoils parts of it for you.

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I agree that it's better than the critics are saying it is and the trailers don't give any indication to what the actual core story is about. It has much more depth than I expected.