2008 · fantasy · action
Hancock
Directed by Peter Berg1h 32m2008
Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?
Our read: Hancock (2008) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive fantasy · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme fantasy / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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