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Ben Thomas (Will Smith) is an IRS agent who is close to suicide for his role in an auto accident that claimed the lives of seven people finds a reason to live, and to atone, when he falls for a woman (Rosario Dawson) who wants to help him deal with his grief.

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Hancock is a superhero movie starring Will Smith, Jason Bateman, and Charlize Theron.

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Will Smith in the movie "Hancock"

John Hancock (Will Smith) is an alcoholic superhero whom everyone loves to hate. Although he has saved many lives, Hancock has destroyed buildings, trains, roads, cars and many others to get his job done. The last time he captured several criminals, it cost the city nearly $9 million to fix the damages. His image is further tainted with videos of him saving lives butt-naked spreading around in YouTube.

When Hancock saves Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman) from being run over by a train, Ray invites Hancock to come over to his house for some spaghetti meatballs. Hancock then meets Ray’s wife, Mary Embrey (Charlize Theron) and son, Aaron (Jae Head). Hancock seems to be attracted to Mary someway.

Before Hancock flies off, Ray offers to help Hancock to change his image and to get the public to like Hancock. In doing so, Hancock has to spend time in jail in order to prove to the city that they need him when he’s not around. Even in jail, Hancock creates trouble by stuffing a criminal’s head into another criminal’s butt.

Finally, after more than two weeks in jail, the Chief Inspector calls for Hancock to help them to solve a huge bank job in which four heavily armed robbers have taken many as hostages and the cops have failed miserably to even get near to the bank. Hancock arrives in a black Velcro costume that has everyone amused. Before he flies off, he tells the Chief, “Good job”, a phrase taught by Ray during his jail time. It is amusing how he wrongly uses the phrase throughout the bank job robbery.

Later Hancock learns that Ray’s wife, Mary also possesses the superhuman strength and speed he has and is technically his wife. He also learns that he’s actually not an alien, but a member of an ancient race which have been referred to as angels and gods throughout history. They are at least 3000 years old and are the last remaining couple of the race which eventually died out because of their weakness which causes them to lose their powers when in close proximity to one another. Members of this race were created in pairs, and are inevitably drawn towards each other. Ray’s Wife is revealed to be the other half of Hancock, and that they are ‘fated’ to be together. Ray’s Wife and Hancock have a brief fight scene and during this scene tornado and other weather disturbances wreak havoc on the city.

Hancock begins to lose his powers as he grows closer to Ray’s wife, and his feelings grow, which has almost caused him his life when he is shot by a robber in a convenience store. In the hospital, Hancock and Mary are assaulted by a group of prisoners who vowed to take revenge on Hancock and have escaped the prison. Mary is heavily injured by gunshots while Hancock tries to fend off the criminals. In the end, in order to save her life from a mortal wound, he leaves her proximity to restore both his powers and hers, healing her.

The movie ends with Ray, Mary and Aaron leading a normal life while Hancock is contented being a superhero.

Overall, the movie is humorous, almost like My Super Ex-Girlfriend, but slightly funnier albeit containing tonnes of excessive languages and scenes.

My ratings: 7 out of 10.

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There are heroes… there are superheroes… and then there’s Hancock.

Hancock (Will Smith) is an alcoholic and sarcastic superhero who is misunderstood by the public.

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The alternate ending of I Am Legend is too good to miss out. When I Am Legend hit theaters, one of the biggest complains was that the ending was completely changed from the book. Now, the original ending is out. Enjoy!

If the video above is not working, check out the "I Am Legend" alternate ending video clip here.

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Adapted from 1954 Richard Matheson book of the same name, I Am Legend is a movie about a terrible virus that is unstoppable and has killed almost everyone in the world. Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, and is the last human survivor left in New York City and maybe the world as he is somehow immune to the deathly virus both airborne and immobile.

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Initially, the movie shows a TV reporter interviewing a doctor who has found the cure for cancer and the doctor has somewhat cured 100% of the patients affected with cancer. As the movie progresses, a virus outbreak has occurred and the authority has decided to destroy Brooklyn Bridge, the only entrance to the city via land. Everyone including Robert Neville’s family, his wife, Zoe (Salli Richardson) and his daughter, Marley (played by Will Smith’s real life daughter, Willow Smith) are evacuating the city. Somehow, when Zoe and Marley have entered the awaiting rescue helicopter, Neville decides to stay back to find cure for the deathly virus.

For three years, Neville has been diligently sending out daily radio messages in desparation to find other survivors who might be out there. Neville has been living alone with his dog, Sam, a German Shepherd which is immune to the virus through airborne for years now. Once awhile, Neville will have flashback of the things that happened back then. His wife and daughter are actually killed when another helicopter crashed into theirs.

What is left in New York City are abandoned cars and buildings, and frozen humans that look like mannequins, and wild animals wandering around the city. As Neville continues his daily routine of sending out daily radio messages in the afternoon, getting DVD’s from the DVD rental shops, wandering around the city with Sam and his gun, things actually get more interesting. In fact, later in the movie, we get to know that Neville has been experimenting his blood with lab rats and infected humans who have turned into mutants. From the book, the mutants are actually vampires but the movie depicts these mutants almost like the enhanced version of zombies we can see in The Resident Evil: Extinction. Apparently, these mutants can only come out during the night as they are not able to walk in the daylight. Neville has set his alarm to remind him that dusk is coming so he knows when to go home and shut off every windows and doors in his house to prevent the mutants from tracking him.

Will Smith as Robert Neville and his dog, Sam in the movie "I Am Legend"

As Neville moves closer to finding the right cure, the mutants, also known as the Darkseekers also begin to appear more often, watching Neville’s every move, waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Like Neville, who often sets up booby trap to capture the Darkseekers for his experiment, the Darkseekers have set up a trap during the night awaiting Neville. Neville injures his leg when he is hunting for the Darkseekers and he is almost killed by the mutant dogs, sent by the Darkseekers. His dog, Sam is bitten by those deformed dogs and even Neville’s blood cannot save Sam as Sam is not immune to the immobile virus.

It suddenly seems to be all different when Neville continues his daily routine without his faithful buddy. One day, Sam sets up a mannequin outside the Darkseekers’ hideout and when the mutants fall for his trap, thinking the mannequin is a human, Sam drives his four-wheel drive out of nowhere and runs over the mutants. Somehow, Neville’s suicidal action leads him to have his vehicle overpowered by the Darkseekers. The moment one of the Darkseekers is about to drag him out of the car, a powerful light appears and Neville is saved. Anna (Alice Braga) has saved Neville as she and her son, Ethan (Charlie Tahan) have heard Neville’s radio message. Anna tells Neville of her journey to the new societies, located in the hills where it is cold and there are people living there and that the Darkseekers could not survive the cold. But, Neville just cannot believe Anna as he believes everyone on earth are death as the Darkseekers have greatly outnumbered them.

When the day turns dark, the mutants manage to find out where Neville stay due to the blood trail he has left earlier and they begin to enter the house. As they attack and finally able to get into the house, Neville’s experiment on one of the Darkseekers earlier begins to show signs it is working. In order to save the human race, Neville acquires the blood of the cured Darkseeker and passes it to Anna, in hoping that Anna can pass it on to the new societies founders. As Anna and her son go into the hiding room, and the attacking mutants are about to shatter the glasses in the lab, Neville pulls off a grenade and kills himself and the rest of the Darkseekers.

Anna and her son manage to find the new societies and passes on the blood tube to the people there. As she says, “We are his legacy, and he’s the legend,” referring to Robert Neville’s great sacrifice in finding the cure and in killing himself to save mankind.

My ratings: 8 out of 10. You just have to love Will Smith, he is the man.

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In I Am Legend, Will Smith plays Robert Neville, a brilliant scientist but he could not stop a terrible virus that killed everyone. Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world.

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