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Rating: stars Last updated: 7:40 am July 1, 2008 WILL Smith's latest July Fourth weekend blockbuster, "Hancock," is basically two wildly different movies joined at the sprockets. The more entertaining one is a superhero spoof crammed with laughs and action. PHOTO GALLERY: Hancock MORE: Lou Lumenick's Movies Blog The choppy final half-hour veers off in a stunningly different direction, ... [link]

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Hancock Will Rule The Weekend, Critics Be Damned [Critical Mass]
Published 7/2/2008 by Maria at Jezebel
... than with deficiencies of this particular movie. (As David Denby recently noted in The New Yorker, we've reached a point where effects-driven movies come off as both too much and not enough.) Your ultimate judgment of Hancock will likely hinge on whether or not you buy the film's dramatic identity shift. I found it rather sudden and perfunctory. I was also a little relieved to discover there's more here than initially meets the eye, that there's a movie to go along with the concept. NY Post : To say that Mary has a past would be the understatement of the summer. Let's just ...

Hancock: Love It or Hate It, Those Are Your Only Choices
Published 7/2/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
... "This movie fails so spectacularly and on so many levels that it's like watching a train plummet off a bridge." New York Post 
 "It's a strange feeling to see the summer's most promising premise self-destruct into something bizarre and unsatisfying, but that is the Hancock experience." ...

Is 'Hancock' Half-Cocked? [Dethroning The King]
Published 7/2/2008 by Nick Malis at Defamer
... · "This movie fails so spectacularly - and on so many levels - that it's like watching a train plummet off a bridge." — Lou Lumenick, New York Post ...

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