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It's Wednesday July the 2 around 8:40PM and

Blockbuster Cliff Notes Review: Hancock

The annual Will Smith summer movie opened today (technically yesterday) with Hancock. "A hard-living superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife of the public relations professional who's trying to repair his image." Okay, drunk superhero in need of some bottom feeding media relations work. Got it. Oh, and Jason Bateman makes the movie practically must see anyway.

And lets be clear, Will Smith is like the 'King' of 4th of July weekend so he's so supposed to eat the box office. Sure, P. Diddy loves it but will it be any good. Defamer asks if Hancock will be half-cocked and then drops this bomb, "It managed to scare up a scant 34% at Rotten Tomatoes and that's only slightly better than Drillbit Taylor!". Ouch. But it's Jeffrey Wells who really spoils the fun over at Hollywood Elsewhere:

"Hancock is a cloddy but decent-enough thing at first but then -- wait for it -- it shoots itself right in the face with a .44 Magnum. It does this at the two-thirds mark with (a) an astoundingly ridiculous plot turn, (b) a totally absurd abandonment of logical behavior concerning a certain character, (c) an introduction of a tediously loathsome fat-faced villain who does nothing but bring everyone down and spoil the vibe, and (d) a ludicrous (and suddenly introduced) back-story dependency that is ridiculous in its complexity and certainly makes no rudimentary sense."

An even bigger mystery than Will Smith's Scientology school of xenus robots or whatever he's cooking up with Tom Cruise, is how Charlize Theron has been almost absent from any marketing of the film. Is she Hancock's secret love interest? Does she has super powers also?

So will I actually see it: Maybe when it hits cheap daytime prices and no crowds at the Granville 7.