I've heard various complaints and praises over this movie, and over all, I loved it. Sure, it's no Batman, but that's not the type of movie it is. It's comedic, actiony, and has a hint of Science Fiction. I did, however, find some of the dialogue to be corny, but other then that I liked it. Really good Special Effects to. Once again, Will Smith conquers.

I loved the first half. First half was absolutley amazing. Second half, when they decided to explain why he was the way he was was absolutley terrible, chessy and hideous, IMO. However, whilst I didn't like the way the story changed direction, I loved the poignancy when he crawls out of the hospital and flies away so that they can both live

I hope my spoiler sign worked.

It was a decent film, it wont exactly go down in my top films ever but i like films in general and it takes a really bad film for me not to like it, and basically very few, if any films with will smith in it will be really bad.

The thing i would say is that the idea was better than the plot itself - the film would have been better if it didnt have to go anywhere, if that makes sense. The comedy and the action of "he's a superhero with attitude" was good, but it couldnt really be a film if it didnt go anywhere, so they had to add the second half of it which wasnt so good.

I Am Legend had the same problem imo, the premise was good, but when the plot actually had to move on, it wasnt quite as good as the beginning.

Which makes me think both of those things would have been better for TV shows, where you can expand on an idea without things having to move on immediately (just look at Lost :cool:)

But yeah, decent film :P

the film would have been better if it didnt have to go anywhere, if that makes sense.

I couldn't have put it better. You might want to put a couple of those bits under spoilers though, so that people don't get the film wrecked if they haven't seen it.... just in case.

Yeah, when they start explaining everything, dialogue gets cheesy, but that's almost inevitable. I really agree with Silver random though. This movie only survived because Will Smith acted in it, and he can do any movie because he's Will Smith.

Yeah ty, i just took out the spoiler - i actually didnt see the 2nd half coming, so i shouldnt potentially ruin it for other people :eek:

Yes, Scribe's Spoiler was a sweet part of the movie. ;D

Yeah. See as much as I hated the story and things that took the film to that point, I really loved that bit itself.

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I agree with most of you. The second half of the movie was pretty ridiculous. Why, for instance, does Charlize Theron show up to meet him at his trailer all vamped out when the point of the movie, I thought, was to show super heroes who weren't all about presentation? Maybe it doesn't matter but I thought it was pretty silly. I thought the idea that they couldn't be around each other or they would lose their powers was pretty lame. Too bad they had to ruin it. Plus, they didn't have a good central villain so it suffered. Nice try, Hollywood! I know your games!

well, haven't watched it yet, (didn't stop me from reading the spoilers) but i think the only thing the critics didn't like about it was the weird plot twist at the end.

This movie was funny, but it was almost not worth watching. It was likea combination of the powers of Superman, the stupidity of Austin Powers, and the cheesiness of Orlando Bloom.

Well, Will Smith was just as funny as ever, that at least did some boosting. Though, it did run a bit short. I thought that it was because we got into the theater late (which we kinda did), but some sneaksters with me decided they wanted to get into another theater where the film was just starting and see how much we missed, turns out barely anything. So it was a little short.

I think the shortness of the whole thing wasn't a very good touch considering that there needs to be a fair amount of running time for substantial character development, and then the whole part about learning his past (I'll leave it at that) and whatnot was like a plummet that came in a little too rapidly. Guess I just found it weird for such a whimsical film. I do love so much of Will Smith's role choices, though.

Oh, it was just another little summer popcorn movie. It was fun to say the least. :D

It was too short for me, and when they started fighting and explaining his background, it got cheesy. That is, however, nearly impossible to stop. Almost every medium of film suffers from it.