So is Hancock good or bad?

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One of the biggest wild card movies going into the summer was Hancock.

Well okay, let's hold up a bit there: this is Will Smith in a superhero movie on the fourth of July. No was is this going to make less than eighteen quadrillion dollars (domestically).

BUT...the early word has been the very definition of mixed. No one seems quite sure what to make of the film: apparently some of the rumored humor (just think "superhuman ejaculation") is more gross/weird than funny, and the film does a complete 180, plot-wise, at the fifty minute mark, with a big development that some say ruins the film.

So what's the truth?

I, my friends, managed to see the film early.

And while I can't write an early review officially - they'd get mad at me and I'm scared - I can tell you it works a heck of a lot better than some online folks would have you guess. The audience I saw the film with in New York City seemed to eat it up, both the humor and the (surprisingly impressive) action sequences. (Oh, and the much-rumored-about ejaculation scene is nowhere to be found.)

However, the big plot development halfway through is just something you'll either go with, or you won't. The first fifty minutes pretty much make up a self-contained movie...and then it keeps going with a much darker tone and a bunch of plot developments that only make sense about half the time.

Since the first half fully hooked me, however, I was willing to go with it. Overall I found it to be easily entertaining enough to make it as Will Smith's next smash hit. Will you? I guess you'll have to find out...

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