DVD Release Date: November 25th, 2008 Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony) Director: Peter Berg Screenwriter: Vy Vincent Ngo, Vince Gilligan Starring: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Eddie Marsan Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Academy Award® 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 Award® winner Charlize Theron, Best Actress, Monster) with
similar powers to his and the key to his secret past
EN 5 Second Review:
A Superhero movie that is actually good, the plot does
twist, its deliciously different. That's the whole point.
Theatrical and unrated single-disc extras: Five
featurettes: "Superhumans: The Making of Hancock," "Seeing the Future,"
"Building a Better Hero," "Bumps and Bruises" and "Mere Mortals: Behind the
Scenes With Dirty Pete";
Special Edition extras: Added
featurettes "Home Life" and "Suiting Up," as well as a digital copy of the
film. (Sony).
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Hancock Release Date: July 1, 2008 (7pm) Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony) Director: Peter Berg Screenwriter: Vy Vincent Ngo, Vince Gilligan Starring: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Eddie Marsan Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and
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Plot Summary: There are heroes... there are superheroes... and then
there's Hancock (Will Smith). With great power comes great responsibility –
everyone knows that – everyone, that is, but Hancock. Edgy, conflicted,
sarcastic, and misunderstood, Hancock's well-intentioned heroics might get the
job done and save countless lives, but always seem to leave jaw-dropping damage
in their wake. The public has finally had enough – as grateful as they are to
have their local hero, the good citizens of Los Angeles are wondering what they
ever did to deserve this guy. Hancock isn't the kind of man who cares what other
people think – until the day that he saves the life of PR executive Ray Embrey
(Jason Bateman), and the sardonic superhero begins to realize that he may have a
vulnerable side after all. Facing that will be Hancock's greatest challenge yet
– and a task that may prove impossible as Ray's wife, Mary (Charlize Theron),
insists that he's a lost cause
EN 5 Second Review:
A Superhero movie that is actually good, the plot does
twist, its deliciously different. That's the whole point.
Here's
a good movie that's going to leave some people pissed off Bob Grimm: Tuscon Weekly Hancock casts Will Smith against type as a sullen,
drunken superhero who hates everybody. He would rather chug whiskey than
deal with criminals, yet something drives him to try to help out
civilization anyway. His being drunk means things get accomplished in a
disorderly manner, with bad-guy vehicles getting impaled on skyscrapers
and beached whales getting tossed into sailboats...more
An
odd kind of hero Rossiter Drake: The Examiner I’d
like to see a sequel to “Hancock.” Here’s a movie filled
with bright ideas, crammed uncomfortably into a story
burdened by confusing and often contradictory exposition. It
begins as a comedy and ends rather unexpectedly with a
flourish of melodrama, but it’s never dull...more
EN 5 Second Review:
A Superhero movie that is actually good, the plot does
twist, its deliciously different. That's the whole point.
An
odd kind of hero