ancock - an intriguing high concept pumped out by seven producers, two credited screenwriters, a director who signed on after the others dropped out, and a box office superstar - has its share of surprises, some of them interesting and some of them, well, confusing. But what begins as a sarcastic dark comedy about a surly SuperDerelict with a drinking problem eventually shifts into an incoherent mess of gunshots, yelling and cryptic back story.
Even by superhero standards, Peter Berg's Hancock is not a formula film. But rather, the film, written by Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan (the latter of whom wrote the best episodes of "The X-Files"), pushes hard to revive the comic-book superhero genre - with a superhero who hates everyone and is hated in turn for the chaos he causes. .. continued »
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ancock - an intriguing high concept pumped out by seven producers, two credited screenwriters, a director who signed on after the others dropped out, and a box office superstar - has its share of surprises, some of them interesting and some of them, well, confusing. But what begins as a sarcastic dark comedy about a surly SuperDerelict with a drinking problem eventually shifts into an incoherent mess of gunshots, yelling and cryptic back story.
