Here's a superhero for the inner city homeless; drunk, sleeps on a park bench, unshaven, impolitic, and generally considered to be an A-hole. He's got the whole deel; super strength, flies, invulnerable, etc.. The first 20 minutes of the movie is him wrecking more havoc saving people than not, until he saves a golden-hearted PR guy who decides to pay him back by bettering his image.. Not always a steady course after that, but he does try.

A lot of negeative reviews on this one, but I decided to see it for myself... and didn't regret it. It's fun, has several humorous moments, and our anti-hero even ends up becoming something better, and perhaps even finding out something about his unknown past. That's not to say it couldn't be better; add maybe 10 more minutes of Hancock goofing up at the begining, and 10 more minutes of the eventual villain developing his revenge plan and of being the process of carrying it out, and htis could easily fill out a full 2 hours instead of just the given 1 hour 38 minutes.

I would also like to fault tainted reviewers out there who, having already seen some of the dailies 10 or 20 times before the movie even comes out, think it all old hat by the time of the movie's release and just naturally assume that we'd all seen the same dailies (forgetting that the "old hat" was their's alone to wear), leading one online review to state that since we all know that so-and-so is that then that's not the big surprise in the film... never mind that we all don't know and what he'd just revealed as not being a spoiler was indeed a BIG spoiler.

Anyway, it's good holiday matinee fare.