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He drinks hard, swears at children (who curse him in turn), rarely shaves, never smiles. Worse, he has lousy superhero style, with sneakers and shorts (no cape), and buggy sunglasses that hide his (X-ray?) eyes. His takeoffs and landings are a mess: sloppy⁴ and violent, they invariably leave a heap of trouble and general rubble⁵ in his wake.

The story really starts when Hancock saves Ray (Jason Bateman) from being flattened⁶ by a freight train. In typical fashion, Hancock botches the save. He plucks Ray from death, but in the process derails the train and, also true to bad form, receives an invective-laced earful from the gathering⁷ mob. Struck by the crowd's hostility⁸, Ray, a public relations guy with a do-gooder streak⁹ decides to rescue Hancock in turn by giving him a superhero makeover.

"Hancock" is far from perfect－it feels overly rushed, particularly toward its chaotic¹⁰ end－but it has a raggedness¹¹ that speaks honestly to the fundamental human fragility that makes the greatest heroes super.

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