We won’t spoil it for you, don’t worry. A week ago (a year ago in blog years), we had noted the L.A. Times was all over why Charlize Theron wasn’t in the marketing for Will Smith’s anti-hero superhero film, “Hancock.”
The piece revealed there was a big twist ending near the end of the film. We made some guesses and without spoiling it, one of our secondary – “This ain’t gonna be like that [REDACTED] M. Night Shyamalan ending is it?” – guesses seems like it was on the money.
We said we wouldn’t likely solve the riddle, and we didn’t. We said someone would do it for us. Naturally, they did (we really didn’t care that much). Vulture did some hunting and has pointed to the spoiler if you want to go down the Internet rabbit hole (ok, it’s only two clicks, it just sounds better). But no, we won’t spoil it. We know you hate your children and you need to do something with them this July 4 weekend. Why not let them “oooh and ahh” for two hours while you take a nap, right?
PS, Jeffrey Wells says “Hancock” is not bad (up until a point), but it’s the aforementioned twist that makes the film totally jump the shark into an “absurd abandonment of logical behavior.” The L.A. Times asks, is a Will Smith backlash inevitable due to his newfound ties to Scientology?
