Sunday, March 4, 2012

Will Smith makes 'Hancock' tolerable: ; Movie opens with promise, but predictable twist adds little depth

"Hancock"

(PG-13) HH 1/2

"Hancock" demonstrates why Will Smith gets paid the big bucks.

The guy has owned Fourth of July weekends with huge debuts forsome passable but not-so-great movies ("Independence Day," "Men inBlack II"), and he'll likely do it again with this foul-mouthed-misanthrope-as-superhero flick.

"Hancock" has a crisp, entertaining set-up - Smith as a superherowho hates everyone and is hated in turn for the chaos he causes.With nowhere to go after that, the filmmakers let the story devolveinto a lame variation of the very action genre they aimed to flip onits head.

But none of that matters. It's Will Smith and it's anotherpassable …

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