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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ben Child

You review: Hancock

Not-so-super ... Hancock, which stars Will Smith

The critics generally reckon the latest Will Smith vehicle is more zero than hero, although the odd dissenting voice reserves praise for this tale of a bumbling drunk who can leap tall builds in a single bound (plus all kinds of other cool stuff).

"Hancock" is never as serious or funny or poignant as it could be," writes Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, while Empire's Kim Newman says the film has "lot of solid scenes - but Hancock lacks the power of super-coherence".

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw is disappointed by the film's "weird lurch in a new direction" half way through, but the Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert reckons Hancock "is a lot of fun, if perhaps a little top-heavy with stuff being destroyed".

Do you agree with the critics? Or was Hancock actually pretty super?

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