Will Smith - Best to Worst and Want-to-Sees

*Minor spoilers in review*

Hancock is, in many, many ways, a very unique film. The idea of super hero who doesn't give a damn, causes more destruction than the villains he's after, and with an alcohol problem is a great one if you ask me. A very unique take on the genre for sure, but what really hurts Hancock is its lack of more comic elements.
By that, I mean that there isn't a central villain here. In all honesty, there didn't even need to be. The first half of this film is incredibly entertaining. Will Smith is hilarious, and the dialog he exchanges with the various people he saves and "threats" made to him are well written and clever. But the movie takes a different direction, in one I really didn't want it to go.
The last act of the film was a total let down. If you saw the commercials and saw the scenes where Hancock was fighting another person with his power, you might have got all giddy with the idea that he's going to have to fight some super villain and save the world by getting off his ass and using his powers for decency.
Unfortunately, that's not the case.
In fact, the biggest problem with Hancock is that if you saw the theatrical trailer for the film, you've pretty much saw the entire thing. Each key scene is seen in the trailer, but obviously extended in the film. It didn't really surprise me at all, except with its half assed final act.
Anyway, it wasn't terrible.
In all honesty, it felt like Peter Berg finished the first half and said "fuck it, someone else finish the rest". The final part of the movie is choppy, and seemingly unfinished and is very poor film making.

But then again, they had to cut down A LOT to get this movie the PG-13 rating they were aiming for. Peter Berg already said look out for the Director's Cut on DVD, and I think that if it helps the second half at all, then it'll definitely be a much more superior flick.

*Spoilers in review*

Last time I rated this movie, I gave it a single star because its so much different than the book.
In all honesty, I think the book is much, much better. Robert Neville doesn't have a dog, he actually has to lure one to his home in desperation for interaction with another creature. For the rest of the book, he's alone and only talks to the vampires outside.
While I am Legend drastically ignores its source material (almost everything is different...), as a stand alone movie it isn't so bad.
Without a doubt, Smith carries the movie. His acting and interaction with his dog are great, and even a little moving. Unfortunately, the writing isn't the great. Apparently, there was a cure for cancer that went airborne and made everyone else into these allergic-to-sunlight monsters. Yeah, it sounds like vampires, and the ones in the book can talk, dress, and grow hair, but in this one... not so much. Hell they're not even called vampires, they're called "Dark Seekers".
The first 30 minutes are fantastic. Smith living his daily life, talking with his dog, and the part where the dog runs in and the very first time we see the monsters is great. Then after that it just falls down hill.
Why were the monsters CG? All they were were bold nearly naked people. Why not hire some people not afraid to take off some clothes and give them a bald cap? Was it really that hard? And a top of the random CG it was also terrible! It looked like the team behind creating it never finished!
All in all, its a freaking fantastic, completely nothing to do with the book (I mean, why New York? Why not Los Angeles? Stuff like that) movie all the while Smith is by himself.
After that, when other characters come into play, it becomes boring and cliched and you totally see where its going.
Still entertaining nonetheless... even for a good laugh at the freaking terrible CGI.

Smith is entertaining and he uses whatever joke he can... usually much too over the top.