Summary
Heavily rewritten by (among others) freaky X-Files scribe Vince Gilligan plus Batman & Robin writer and menace-to-society Akiva Goldsman, [Hancock] was at one time or another announced as terribly close to being made by directors as disparate as Michael Mann (who, like Goldsman, stayed onboard as a producer), Breakdown's Jonathon Mostow and even The Pursuit of Happyness' Gabrielle Muccino. Mann's gifted protege Peter Berg finally finished the job, although the final cut feels so truncated, tinkered-with and confused, it's tough to imagine what this weirdo movie was ever supposed to be in the first place.
Hancock is deeply strange, devoting its entire first half to our dirtbag crusader's failed, stubbornly unlikable antiheroics. [Will Smith] purses his lips into a boozy sneer; he's incapable of even smiling convincingly. After begrudgingly saving the life of Jason Bateman's altruistic publicist, Mr. Hancock receives a crash course in media relations. With a knowing nod to all the awkward ways in which Jerry Maguires of the world must coach their thug athlete clients into feigning graciousness in public, the deliciously deadpan Bateman teaches this ornery souse how to sand down the jagged edges of his personality and to act like ... well, like Will Smith. Suddenly he's the most beloved man in town.See the full content of this document
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Super Zero
Super Zero
Will Smith's antiheroic antics go nowhere.Neither fish nor fowl, and obviously not quite finished yet, this perplexing, occasionally rather enjoyable comic book satire finds our last bona fide...See the full content of this document
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