Hancock (Two-Disc Unrated Edition)
by Peter Berg
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Actor: Charlize Theron, Eddie Marsan, Jae Head, Jason Bateman, Will SmithDirector: Peter Berg
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
Published: 2008-11-01
DVD Release Date: 2008-11-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Hancock (Two-Disc Unrated Edition)
Movie Review: More graphic novel than comic book....
Summary: 5 Stars
In the same way contemporary "graphic novels" are not the comic books of 1950, Hancock is not a superhero-movie like Chistopher Reeves' Superman of the 1970s & 80s.
Hancock is the graphic novel version of an immortal, physically invulnerable, superstrong, flying madman. His physical attributes outfit him for hero status, but his mental & emotional instability don't.
As a non-category movie, Hancock almost became a non-starter. If it weren't for Will Smith's univeral appeal -- it probably would have been. But as a movie-going public, we know that we will pretty much always be entertained by this guy. And it turns out to be true. In what is ultimately a tragic-hero role, we are entertained. We laugh at his super alcoholism. We laugh at his super social failings. We laugh at his super amnesia and his super bad judgement.
But we also recognize that he didn't put on the suit the way Clark Kent did -- for truth, justice, and the American Way. He wasn't looking for his 15 minutes of fame, or a place in the DC Hall of Fame. He was wallowing just like Joe-down-the-street wallows. That he happens to be able to fly is almost irrelevent except for its comic value.
While Superman and Batman are part of our collective All-American mythos, Hancock (with his all-too-American name) really isn't. Hancock is a representative of the more global "we're all cut from the same cloth" religion. Hancock is the flipside of Smith's role in Independence Day -- the American hero who saves the world. If you didn't read it at the time, you need to know that most of the world snorted a good laugh at our cinematic arrogance over that one. By the time Independence Day came out, our military supremacy, and America-saves-the-world cocky-ness were both wearing thin. The idea that only we, in the bowels of Area 51, could come up with a plan to rescue all those other poor, blundering slobs in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and South American was the biggest ego-folly of the century, and the biggest joke of that otherwise fireworks show movie.
Hancock is completely devoid of the cocky American attitude. The only sign of even pro-American heroism is in the REALLY heroic goodness of Jason Bateman's character who sets about to help Hancock out of the American gutter. What Hancock does have, finally, is humility and self sacrifice -- far better commodities to be pushing as super-heroic.
For those indulging in super-hero bashing -- you wern't watching the movie you paid to see. You were watching for the movie you expected to see. Which is sad, really. If you'd been paying attention, you'd have seen a graphic novel onscreen about what America needs to be to reclaim its super-hero status. But since that doesn't involve bellowing super-music, or CGI'd miracles, it might be too subtle for some.
Summary of Hancock (Two-Disc Unrated Edition)
Academy AwardŽ nominee Will Smith (Best Actor, The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006) stars in this action-packed comedy as Hancock, a sarcastic, hard-living and misunderstood superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public. When Hancock grudgingly agrees to an extreme makeover from idealistic publicist Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman, Juno), his life and reputation rise from the ashes and all seems right again--until he meets a woman (2003 Academy AwardŽ winner Charlize Theron, Best Actress, Monster) with similar powers to his and the key to his secret past.Similar DVD Movies
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