Hancock
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: July 2, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
16
Negative:
7
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38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Not even Smith's charisma can mitigate the chaos that is Hancock. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
This movie fails so spectacularly - and on so many levels - that it's like watching a train plummet off a bridge. Read full review
30
VarietyTodd McCarthy
The effects are snazzy, even if they pass by quite quickly, and there's enough going on to keep audiences watching, if not entirely happy. Smith, Theron and Bateman capably handle the main roles, but such is the skimpiness of the scenario that no further characters make any impact. Read full review
30
NewsweekDavid Ansen
The superhero genre screams for a makeover, or at least a smart deconstruction, but Hancock isn't that movie. It just ups the foolishness ante. Read full review
30
Washington PostStephen Hunter
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. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
A godforsaken (possibly literally) mess. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Any notions of demolishing black stereotypes -- and what else could have possessed Mr. Smith to do this? -- are dashed by the coarseness of it all, and by the narrative incoherence; a surprising plot twist turns a sloppy action-comedy into a totally different movie, and an even worse one. Read full review
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