Some melodrama and a superwoman later, it loses steam.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 30, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

The strain of messianism in Will Smith movies is becoming ever more pronounced.

| Original Score: C | Oct 18, 2008

It becomes an entirely different film, one not really premised on the bad-superhero comedy idea, and the film is then oddly without a sense of humour, and its vague interest in satire vanishes completely.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

Train wrecks are intrinsically spectacular, and Will Smith's new movie offers a doozy. Two of them, in fact.

| Oct 18, 2008

It's definitely a mish-mash, but really good performances.

Full Review | Jul 14, 2008

Hancock isn't by any means a dead loss, but it could have been a lot better.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 10, 2008

The dynamic between the sullen Smith and sincere Bateman may be the best thing in the Peter Berg's movie, but it's a tough call because the whole popcorn fest is flat-out fantastic.

| Original Score: A | Jul 4, 2008

See-saws between straight superhero movie and parody, with layers of soap-opera fudge in between. A lot of solid scenes - but Hancock lacks the power of super-coherence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2008

A peculiar and occasionally charming poke in the ribs of the superman myth.

Full Review | Jul 3, 2008

As popcorn movies go, this is fleet, funny, and even thoughtful: its central question, nicely underplayed by director Peter Berg, is why power and altruism never seem to intersect.

| Jul 3, 2008

Why on earth anyone would want to waste a summer matinee afternoon with Hancock when they could get wasted with Shakes the Clown in the DVD privacy of their own lair?

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 3, 2008

The problem is that director Peter Berg, aided and abetted by Smith and Theron and third banana Jason Bateman, seem to have made it literally, not realizing its out-of-whack tonalities and grotesque plot twists were meant to be played for laughs.

| Jul 2, 2008

As soon as the hero becomes another wounded demigod brooding on rooftops, the movie loses its sting.

| Jul 2, 2008

Hancock makes for one unexpectedly satisfying and kinky addition to Hollywood's superhero chronicles.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 2, 2008

There's a great idea here, but it's buried within a muddled story that lurches between dark comedy and maudlin drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 2, 2008

Since The Pursuit of Happyness, actor-producer Smith has made no secret of his desire to make movies that entertain in that big-studio way but also dig deeper. Hancock is a rousing measure of that intent.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 2, 2008

As delivered by director Peter Berg, Hancock is never as serious or funny or poignant as it could be. And despite clocking in at a reasonable running time, it has a big sag in the middle that nothing could have fixed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 2, 2008