Turns out the posters were right. This very much was two movies, It’s one of those films that’s more or less fine when you’re watching it, but then when you think back on it you find more and more things that didn’t add up and you feel a little cheated.

The shift from recovering alcoholic Hancock to recovering memory Hancock didn’t work for me. It was way too easy for him to get better. Solving one heist and he’s suddenly fine? I didn’t know substance abuse problems could be fixed with one grand gesture. What are those alcoholics complaining about with their 12 steps? This film showed me it’s only one, you lazy drunks.

Jess, I certainly see your point. HANCOCK is exactly what a summer blockbuster should be. I suppose why I had issues with it was because in that first half I thought it transcended that a little bit. In that sense it wasn’t that I had preconceived ideas or high expectations going into the movie. It was that the first half gave me preconceived ideas and high expectations, and in my opinion failed to deliver on that. If the first half had been more like the second, then who knows, I might have enjoyed it much more.