Hancock (Unrated) [Blu-ray] - Harry Potter 6 Books

Product Description

Academy Award® nominee Will Smith (Best Actor, The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006) stars in this action-packed comedy as Hancock, a sarcastic, hard-living and misunderstood superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public. When Hancock grudgingly agrees to an extreme makeover from idealistic publicist Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman, Juno), his life and reputation rise from the ashes and all seems right again--until he meets a woman (2003 Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron, Best Actress, Monster) with similar powers to his and the key to his secret past.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #159 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2008-11-25
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Format: Anamorphic
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 92 minutes

Amazon.com
Hancock turns the standard superhero movie inside-out: The title character (Will Smith) can fly, has superstrength, and is invulnerable, but he's also a sloppy, alcoholic jerk who causes millions of dollars in property damage whenever he bothers to fight crime. When he saves the life of a public-relations agent named Ray (Jason Bateman, Arrested Development), Ray decides to improve Hancock's image--starting by having Hancock surrender himself to the authorities and go to prison for his lawless behavior. The idea is that once he's in prison, the crime rate will go up, and people will start to realize Hancock might be of value after all. This is only the first act of Hancock--from there, the movie takes several clever turns that shouldn't be revealed. Hancock isn't a great movie (among other things, director Peter Berg overuses close-ups with a hand-held camera to a degree that may cause motion sickness), but it is an extremely entertaining one. The script, which holds together far better than most superhero movies, has a propulsive plot, good dialogue, some compassion for its characters, and even an actual idea or two. The spectacular action at least gestures towards obeying the laws of physics, which actually makes the special effects more vivid. The three leads (Smith, Bateman, and Charlize Theron as Ray's wife, Mary) deftly balance the movie's mixture of comedy, action, and drama. All in all, a smart subversive twist on a genre that all too often takes itself all too seriously. --Bret Fetzer

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Customer Reviews

Hancock, the movie
Excellent shipping service; loved Will Smith and Jason Bates and Charlize Theron in this 'feel good' hero-action, romantic-comedy movie. Our family loved it!

A Less-than-Perfect Superhero
I loved it! It is a 2-disk package. The one disk is both the theatrical version and the unrated version of the movie. The unrated version says it has footage that was not shown in the theater, and ran about 1 1/2 hours. The other disk is the special features disk (explained below).

Will Smith (Hancock) was the normal mix of outstanding actor and funny man that he always is. Charlize Theron (Mary Embrey) and Jason Bateman-"Juno" (Ray Embrey) do a great job completing the main characters.

The movie begins with bad guys on the run, a police car chase, and shooting. Through it all, our superhero (Hancock) is passed out drunk on a city bench. All of a sudden, he popps off the bench and is airborn, booze bottle in hand. He goes after the bad guys, drops into their car from the sky, and in Will Smith humor, tells them to stop shooting (the noise hurts his head because he has a hangover.) But, bad guys being what they are (bad), they shoot holes in his sunglasses (while he's wearing them). Then they did the unthinkable--they shot up the bottle of booze. So Hancock looses his cool and tears their little behinds up! Of course, the action and humor continues throughout the movie.

Hancock is not your norman superhero. He is rude, mouthy, sarcastic drunk. He has the manners of a pig. He needs anger-management classes, especially when someone calls him "xxxhole". As a result, the people don't like him and are unappreciative of him. Everybody knows who he is. He soon meets Ray Embrey. Ray is a really nice guy who does public relations work and tries to help Hancock change his public image.

I don't want to tell you anymore because I want you to enjoy the twists and turns and the action. I thought the movie was brilliant and I am really surprised it is not getting better reviews on Amazon. I will certainly watch this dvd again.

The special features disk contains the following, as listed on the box: (I have not watched the special features yet.)
1) Bumps and Bruises--stunt featurette;
2) Home Life--the building of the Embrey House and Hancock's Trailer;
3) Seeing the Future--in-depth look at scenes of Hancock using pre-visualization, film, and behind-the-scenes footage;
4) Superhumans--the making of Hancock;
5) Building a Better Hero--special effects featurette;
6) Suiting Up--Costume design featurette;
7) Mere Mortals: Behind the Scenes with "Dirty Pete"--The directing style of Peter Berg
8) Digital copy of the theatrical version of the film

Not what I expected
The story line was spotty. The special effects were good and Will Smith played his role fairly well. The only really good portion was the last quarter of the film. It does leave you wanting more than what you got and the ending prepares the viewer for a sequel. Let's hope it has a better all around story than this film does. To wrap it all up I'd have to say that the main characters did well with what they had to work with.