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Do NOT listen to negative reviews...
by Casey (movies profile)
Jul 16, 2008
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I know that 50% of the positive Yahoo User reviews for any given movie have a similar title to this one... But never has such a statement been truer than with Hancock.
I got back from a midnight showing about an hour ago, and I need to say that everyone needs to completely disregard the terrible early reviews and the rumors of disgruntled test audiences. Maybe it was my insanely low expectations for the movie combined with the likability of Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Jason Bateman, but I totally loved the movie... My friends and I for the life of us figure out why the thing was so universally panned by test audiences and screening critics... It's funny, it's energetic, it's totally believable within the boundaries it sets, and everything is explained and everything kind of comes full circle... I was EXTREMELY satisfied by the end of the movie... MUCH more so than, say, with Get Smart.
I really recommend that everyone completely ignore the critics and their completely unfounded dislike of the movie... Give it a chance and judge for yourself. You'll come away happy.
And let me just say one more time that I have NO idea where all the negative rumors and press came from. None. The movie was completely entertaining. I thought that everything in the end held up really well. I didn't really feel that the end was uneven or that anything felt patched up. Everything fit together nicely.
If you want to see a solid, funny, entertaining movie this weekend, then by all means, go and watch Hancock. You'll be glad that you did. |
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