Hancock

This movie was pretty good. My favorite part is the ending, which I won't give away here.

There was a couple of things I didn't like about this movie. One was Jason Bateman's character. He seemed like a rather nonchalant, downright sleazy guy, but not *acutely* sleazy, and having no other traits to speak of. Except for his wild ambitions to help the world. Strange huh? Also, he seemed impossible to surprise. I can't give it away but he found out something pretty damned important and mind-blowing about a subject one would normally be heavily emotionally invested in, and he basically just sat there being somewhat angry or stern but not particularly much of anything. I don't even know what anybody was aiming for there...the whole thing was just rather *weird* and he was like this grey hole of anticlimax. (No, not even a black hole.. just a grey hole.)

The other thing I didn't like was that Ray (Jason Bateman's character) convinced Hancock to "improve his image", by wearing special hero clothes and doing all these good-mannered things, etc., in order to improve his relations with the public. Which may seem cute and all, but it shouldn't have been effective. Hancock obviously had deep emotional issues to deal with, and Ray's idea was to superficially cure the symptoms, while Hancock fell for it (after denying any *real* therapy in prison). At least that's what actually *happened* in the movie, I don't know if that's what they intended for it to look like to the audience. And the superficial fix actually *worked* and made Hancock happy and stuff. So that aspect was like with one of those feel-good movies with the emotional depth of a mosquito, except that Bateman's character wasn't even itself all Bells and Holly. So that part of the movie was neither here nor there.

Overall, though, I think it was a good movie. Will Smith brought it to the table, as usual. And it seems there's always new twists to put on having superpowers.. this one was kind of funny.