Hancock

I actually enjoyed this movie which was good because I watched it the day after I finished Wanted. I thought it had a good plot that was fresh and new when compared to all the other 'superhero' movies out there in the world. I absolutely could not predict the end at the beginning, I suspected the twist but was still a little surprised when it happened (I only suspected it because they sort of ruined it in the trailer).

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Plot: The movie is about a dysfunctional, scruffy, alcoholic, belligerent superhero (Hancock) who has his own special way of doing good. Basically he gets the job done (i.e. gets the bad guy arrested) with complete disregard to the damage done to the city, other people, or the delinquents themselves. One day he saves a 'modern day superhero' (guy who is trying to save the world by getting big companies to give away some of their products i.e. food, medicine, etc. for free to people who really need it) from being hit by a train, the guy (named Ray) thanks Hancock profusely and offers to help him with his public image (the public hates him because of the way he gets things done). Eventually Hancock's ignorant ways get him into enough trouble that the public calls for his arrest (which of course would be impossible because bullets bounce off of Hancock and he listens to no one) , but Ray suggests that Hancock allow himself to be incarcerated letting the city go without him until the people realize how much they relied on him. (I forgot to mention that Ray's wife hates Hancock.) Anyway the public finally realizes that they need Hancock and so the clean-shaven, fully suited, newly mannered Hancock comes to the public's aid in a gentlemanly fashion. Ray, his wife Mary, and Hancock go to dinner that night and Hancock reveals that he cannot remember anything past 80ish years ago when he woke up in a hospital as a superhuman and that he doesn't age. That night it is also revealed that Mary is also a superhuman and that she doesn't want anyone to know about it. The next day she and Hancock get into a superhuman spat which leads to destruction of some of the downtown area. She reveals to Hancock that people such as themselves are created in pairs to protect the world and that hey are the only two left. She tells him that when they get too close to each other they lose their superhuman abilities, that this happens so that they can choose to settle down, fall in love, grow old, and die if they want to. I won't give the way the rest of the movie, but I will say that in the end Hancock moves to New York.

I liked this one a lot, it had a great plot and was well-acted. I recommend it to sci-fi, superhero, Will Smith, and action movie fans.