Hancock.

It's the superhero season...
It's a superheroic year actually, thinking about it...
And it's a good thing to realise that the quality of that wave is quite consistently good!

Hancock is an original character, which is a good change. The approach it adopts, using a sort of Superman that would have totally lost focus is also quite fresh.

It is carried very convincingly by Will Smith, portraying a surprisingly multilayered character.
That's the movie's biggest surprise actually: it turns out to be actually quite intimate and touching, without shying away from superheroic spectaculars...

It also uses an excellent twist and on that I have to say that I'm impressed in the advertising campaign that doesn't give it away... I always get annoyed at those trailers that give most of the film away.
I remember coming out of Golden Eye thinking "well everything was in the trailer". That's really annoying... That didn't happen here and to do so they had to refuse to cash in on a very famous (and talented and beautiful) actress appearing and having a central role in the story... It's brave! I like it! :)

So based on all these positive comments, is it the best superhero movie ever made?
Well I have to say it isn't.
This is mainly because, to me, the movie lacks a "real" villain. A superhero must have a nemesis. Ironically, the way the story turns out and the very reason why it is original, prevents this.
So in a sense it's a shame, but in another it's actually an asset... Strange.
Maybe I'll see it again and actually get a bit more enthhousiastic.

But somehow this time I didn't get my fix. Not completely.

Yet, don't be turned off: it's a worthy movie, well done, well acted and original in it's own right!
In these times of remakes and endless adaptations, it's something that has to be valued!