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Hancock (Unrated) | 
 enlarge | Director: Peter Berg
Actors: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Jae Head, Eddie Marsan
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: Movie
Buy New: $14.99
Rating:  134 reviews
Sales Rank: 1023
Genre: Action
Rating: Unrated
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 103 Minutes
ASIN: B001KB5UZS
Theatrical Release Date: November 25, 2008
Release Date: November 25, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Synopsis:
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. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 129 more reviews...
 Hancock, the movie January 8, 2009
Connie L. Penny (Fort Worth, Texas)
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 January 8, 2009
Kathy W (Baltimore)
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 January 8, 2009
Tommy R. Johnson (Midwest grandpa)
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.
excellent service January 7, 2009
Paul D. Cox (The Woodlands, TX)
product received next day after release date, new and in wrapper, just as promised...
thank you!!
 Hancock (Unrated) [Blu-ray] January 6, 2009
C. L. Harris (Massachusetts, USA)
Good DVD Will Smith is at his usual best. Entertaining and I like the characters and plot.
I paid a few dollars more than it costs at Wal-Mart though.
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