Sunday Movie Experience

It was my first SMEx and the weather was horrible, though i didn't let it dampen my spirits. We met up in Billabong before hand for the pre-movie beer. There was an unhealthy amount of guys with umbrellas but i decided to let that one pass.

In Hancock, Will Smith plays a lazy-drunk-bum who is lucky enough to have superhero powers. Its a pretty interesting concept and had a lot of scope for good superhero related comedy. The movie doesn't disappoint, with some great laughs in the first half of the movie and a pretty decent performance from Will Smith.

Unfortunatly this is where it started to go downhill, the second half of the movie took itself far to seriously and broke the formula which worked so well in the first half. Don't get me wrong, i still enjoyed the movie, i just think i would have enjoyed an entire movie of drunken superhero laughs more.

Technically Hancock has everything, some great laughs, a very attractive lady, decent action scenes, some drama, suspense and a couple of interesting twists. Maybe it was trying too hard to include everything.

Still if you have an evening to spare, there are enough laughs in this movie to make up for its inconsistant genre.

The Hoff says: Too bad I couldn't fly away when I was drunk