Hancock

Another movie review…Got mixed feelings from friends so I decided to find out for myself how good/bad is this film…

 Hancock (Will Smith)is not your typical hero, nor superhero. Yes, he does have some of the powers and abilities of what we would consider a superhero, but he is completely different than any you have heard or read of before. A perhaps misunderstood hero, Hancock heroics might get the job done, but he always seems to do a lot more damage than what is expected to happen. The public eventually has had enough of Hancock and his ways and want him gone! Hancock doesn’t really care what other think or say about him until one day he saves the life of an executive Ray (Jason Bateman), and the loner of a superhero begins to realize that he may have a vulnerable side after all. Hancock’s biggest challenge is soon to come and he least expects it and has everyone fooled even the audience!

Rating C

August Rush

“There’s music in the wind and sky. Can you hear it? And there’s hope. Can you feel it? The boy called August Rush can.”

For the past 11 years, Evan Taylor (Freddie Higmore) has been an orphan, but that and his name is about to change.

Evan has “always heard the music,” even when it’s not playing, and one day he decides to follow it in hopes of finding the parents he’s never met and whose musical genes he has inherited.  As we learn in the beginning flashback, his parents, both musicians at the time, were an unlikely match: Lyla (Kerri Russell) was a shy, quiet cellist, while Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) was an Irish rocker. Their mutual love for music brought them together on a rooftop for just one night, of which was completley unforgetable and will soon bring them back together. But when Evan is born prematurely, Lyla’s father (William Sadler) does what he thinks is right for her future and gives the baby up for adoption without her knowledge. Lyla and Louis have eventually given up on music, but Evan begins to pick up where they left off, in New York City. While there, he is discovered by a self-proclaimed “manager” named Wizard (Robin WIlliams),who renames this young Mozart…August Rush. Before long, Wizard is using August in hopes of stardom and financial wealth, while August hopes to use his music for a better and less selfish purpose…reuniting with his parents.

Rating A-

Have seen several times before and love it everytime…you will be hooked till the end and rooting for August throughout the whole film!