Hancock (2008)

All Critics (217) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (134) | DVD (21)

The strain of messianism in Will Smith movies is becoming ever more pronounced.

October 18, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

Train wrecks are intrinsically spectacular, and Will Smith's new movie offers a doozy. Two of them, in fact.

October 18, 2008 Full Review | Comments (3)

Tom Charity

CNN.com

Top Critic

It's definitely a mish-mash, but really good performances.

July 14, 2008 Comments (3)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

As popcorn movies go, this is fleet, funny, and even thoughtful: its central question, nicely underplayed by director Peter Berg, is why power and altruism never seem to intersect.

July 3, 2008 Full Review | Comment

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

The problem is that director Peter Berg, aided and abetted by Smith and Theron and third banana Jason Bateman, seem to have made it literally, not realizing its out-of-whack tonalities and grotesque plot twists were meant to be played for laughs.

July 2, 2008 Full Review | Comments (3)

Stephen Hunter

Washington Post

Top Critic

As soon as the hero becomes another wounded demigod brooding on rooftops, the movie loses its sting.

July 2, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

Kicks into tired oh-it-sucks-to-have-superpowers territory and opens up a can of racial issues it has no intention of investigating

August 26, 2009 Full Review | Comment

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

I have no problem signing on to recommend this. Get it? Signing on...John Hancock... nevermind.

August 3, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

3BlackChicks Review

When the credits roll and you see two screenwriters listed, the first thing that occurs is, 'did they write a half each?'

May 12, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ian Berriman

SFX Magazine

A few actors such as Clint Eastwood, marry substance and popularity. But very few. Most actors' egos lead them to slum in the box office. I'm reminded of this often when a major, talented actor opts for popularity instead of substance when the latter beck

February 1, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Tony Macklin

Fayetteville Free Weekly

...an engaging and thoroughly innovative spin on the superhero genre...

November 28, 2008 Full Review | Comment

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

A superhero movie with soul, a magically endowed boozer, and quirky chemistry fueled between those two dramatic heavyweights, Will Smith and Charlize Theron, who go at it like Hillary and Obama duking it out at a presidential primary.

November 23, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

Will Smith as an unlikable alcoholic superhero in need of Alcoholics Anonymous, anger management and a new image.

November 22, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

What an odd movie!

November 21, 2008 Full Review | Comment

JoBlo

JoBlo's Movie Emporium

Like the main character, Hancock has an identity crisis.

November 19, 2008 Full Review | Comment

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

• 1. Hancock: You'd better not hit me with that truck!
  – Submitted by Danny S (12 days ago)
• 1. Boy at Bus Bench: Hancock!
  2. Hancock: What, boy?
  3. Boy at Bus Bench: Bad guys.
  4. Hancock: What, you want a cookie? Get the hell out my face.
  5. Boy at Bus Bench: Asshole.
  6. Hancock: What?
  7. Boy at Bus Bench: You heard me.
  – Submitted by Rocky F (2 months ago)
• 1. Michel: Asshole.
  2. Hancock: [leans in close to Michel] Call me an asshole one more time.
  3. Michel: Asshole.
  4. Hancock: [grabs Michel and launches him into the sky; turns to chubby kid] You got a problem Thickness? [chubby kid shakes his head; turns to kid with glasses]
  5. Hancock: How about you Goggles? [kid with glasses shakes his head]
  – Submitted by Kerwin M (5 months ago)
• 1. Hancock: Gotta wonder, though. What kind of bastard must I have been, that nobody was there to claim me? I mean, I'm... I'm not the most charming guy in the world, so I've been told, but... nobody?
  – Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)
• 1. Red: Upon us all, Hancock. You're no different. Time to shut her down, Hancock. It's been a nice run. Oh, we are all sincerely gonna miss you. But it is time for you to move on. And maybe to a happier place. You can thank me if you want to... superhero.
  – Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)