So last night I went to see Hancock with some family and my girlfriend.  At first sight, the movie looks like a total action flick.  But in reality, it is actually a chick flick with explosions, guns and mayhem.  The underlying love story was overwhelming.  It had potential to be an amazing non-comic book super hero story.  But they shot it in the head when they added this overpowering love story.

Here is where you stop reading if you don’t want to be spoiled.

The movie starts off interesting enough, you get to see Hancock fly (terribly unnatural looking), jump high, use super strength, stop a train without moving at all, etc.  This causes a public outcry due to the massive amounts of public damage and as the movie progresses he gets a PR agent to fix the image problems and he goes to jail to help fix them.  As the movie progresses, Hancock shows more abilities but gets no back story.  Then his PR agents wife turns out to be the same as Hancock, once again, almost 0 back story.  How can you tell a story with no back story except to mention he is very old and some sort of “gift from the gods”, oh and there were more but they came in pairs and when they get close to each other they turn mortal and people kill them.

For action, the movie is decent.  But it ends there, the heanous trickery used to get men into a chick flick is an abomination to us movie goers.  Sell me the movie for what it is, don’t pretend its something else.  If the movie sucks so much you have to sell it for something it isn’t, don’t make it!!