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| Hancock: Nice Take-off, Crash Landing; ♦♦♦ | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 12 2008, 07:11 PM (176 Views) | |
| Post #1 Jul 12 2008, 07:11 PM |
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Trailers often give accurate insight into the quality of a movie. They usually reveal enough of the plot to tease, but hold back key plot elements, else everyone would watch the trailer and skip the movie. The trailer for Hancock does both of the above, in spades. The trailer promised a light-hearted movie, lampooning typical superhero fare, adding a twist of reality that is often ignored in the pedestrian flyguy flicks. In this case, Hancock, in addition to having super powers, also has an attitude. Like any subset of humanity, superheroes would have their share of [expletive referring to a bodily orifice deleted], although calling Hancock such is highly not recommended. The trailer also promised a change in the character and the necessarily attendant poignancy. The movie fulfilled those promises. Early on, it is genuinely laugh-out-loud funny, later becoming appropriately sappy at just the right time and to just the right extent. The story line then hangs a louie. I won't spoil it here. Suffice it to say that it is a satisfyingly surprising, but fitting, twist. While the tale is passable from that point on, it does seem to lack the ironic authenticity of the first half. The action scenes are a bit overblown and noisy beyond the pale. (Note to filmmakers: amplitude is not everything--and that is not referring to sound alone.) However, quantity seems to be a suitable Hollywood substitute for quality. When the story ebbs, the debris flows. The climax is a bit predictable, but, in an effort to avoid that predictability, drags. The very end of the movie is flat-out lame. This movie would have earned an ♦♦♦♦ but for the last half-hour or so. It's still worth seeing on the big screen. But, if you have a 61-inch Samsung DLP HDTV (as I do), that'll prove to be big enough. And, you get to control the volume. |
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