Hancock

I'm going to side with the thesis that this is a movie about a guy with super powers that didn't need to be made. It's true that if you've seen the trailer, you have seen most of the entertaining bits of super powers on display by Hancock from the film, though the film embellishes the comedic punchlines. But, that's only the first third of the film, and the last 2/3 of the movie veers into head-scratching territory, and produces a mostly bland and off-putting storyline that makes you question why the characters are acting so dumb, except to evince sheer spectacle within the movie, but with little purpose and eliciting very little audience investment in the outcome.

Director Peter Berg's penchant for using handi-camera work is ill-suited for the material, and the special effects were not all that special, and detracted from the super power sequences. Just about all the performances by the principal actors in the movie were wasted in this cash-grab of a movie. The script is the main weak point of the movie, and it needed much more rewrites (with a more purposeful central theme, rather than a hodgepodge of ideas producing cinematic sludge when it could have been a much better concoction of a cinematic smoothie).

I give it 1.75 stars, or a grade of C-.