Will Smith, whose career I worried was in jeopardy between Wild Wild West (1999) and i, Robot (2004), returns with another $100+ million blockbuster in Hancock, a mere seven months after the hit I Am Legend. Both are very good choices for the man who might just be our last true action hero (as the careers of Vin Diesel and The Rock continue to idle and superhero movies increasingly cast "real" actors); horror-actioners and superhero flicks are in, just as alien conspiracy sci-fi films were in when Smith was becoming a star in the mid nineties.
Hancock was a wise career move for Will Smith and can only do good things for his co-star Jason Bateman, whose journey from D-List reject to low-A-List favorite is one of Hollywood's nicest stories from the past few years. But despite the combination of two of my favorite people in Hollywood and the film's sure-hit status, Hancock is underwhelming in nearly...
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