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(Spoiler Alert) the day after Hancock finds out that Mary also has powers, he stabs her with a large fork with two pointy ends. As expected, they do not puncture her skin. The pointy ends bend toward each other, making a triangle shape. But in the next shot, when Mary snatches it from his hand, the tips are no longer in a triangle shape, just bent the wrong way a little. Mary snatches it away by the handle, so we know that she could not have taken it by the points and bent it. See more...

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Hancock (2008) - 19 corrections

Directed by Peter Berg, starring Will Smith, Jason Bateman, Charlize Theron (add more)

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

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Updated recently Hancock throws the French child high up in the air (after it called him ass'ole several times). When it comes back down, he catches it with his arm. It really doesn't matter what stops a fall from such great height, an arm or the ground; the child would be dead for sure. [Not necessarily. The ground has no "give" while an arm can catch the child, and give way, absobing energy. Anyway, people have fallen from heights as high as 15000 feet, and hit the ground after a parachute didn't open, and survived.]
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Entry When Hancock is in the hospital after the liquor-store robbery a reporter mentions that he was hospitalized due to "multiple gunshot wounds". During the robbery, however, he was only shot once. [The reporter either had wrong information, or as happens frequently, exaggerated. I have seen news reports where they don't even get names right, and attribute the wrong name to a person in a newscast. Disturbingly common in real life.]
Entry When Hancock saves Jason Bateman from being hit by the train, he flips the car onto its roof, crushing it. In the next scene, he drops Jason Bateman and his car off at home and the roof has no damage to it. [First, the car is never shown to be "crushed". Second, Hancock is easily strong enough to pound out any dents that would have been made.]
Corrected by Phixius
Entry In the scene where Mary Embrey goes to Hancock's trailer to tell him about their past, Hancock says something to the effect of "sisters don't kiss their brothers the way you kissed me in the kitchen last night." In fact, the night before, they never kiss, they just come real close to kissing before she throws him through the wall. [Just got done watching it, and they actually kiss for several seconds before Mary throws Hancock through the wall.]
Entry The locomotive in the train wreck was a low-powered switching engine. Dozens and dozens of rail cars kept piling up, yet that engine would not have been powerful enough to pull such a long train in the first place. [It is very possible that there were multiple engines pulling the train, it actually is quite common to have more than one.]
Entry When Hancock tells Michel to call him a-hole one more time and throws him into the air, notice that when the boy Hancock called "Thickness" looks up in the air he wears glasses but they suddenly disappear. [The glasses are on the kid he calls "Goggles" not, "Thickness". BUT in between the two shots, "Thickness" manages to change his shirt, hair color, and body build. "Goggles" manages to change his shirt, glasses, and ethnicity. So obviously, they are not the same children in both shots.]
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Entry Spoiler Alert: When the 'superwoman' tells Hancock that they were built in pairs so that they could live together and die together, it completely contradicts what happens at the end of the film. As she is is lying dead on the hospital bed, Hancock uses the last of his strength to move far away from her, thus causing her to live again and both of them start becoming immortal once more. If this is the case, then when one of their kind dies, as long as the one who is alive is far enough, the being that died will come back to life and both will become immortal again. [She explains to him that there is a reason why they lose their powers over time when they pair up, and that is so that they can grow old and die together like normal mortals. SO, presumably the others died because they chose to become mortals and live normal human lifetimes.]
Corrected by mandy gasson
Entry (SPOILER ALERT) When Hancock returns in the morning after he has been tossed out of the house by Mary, he tries to stab her with a fork only to see it bend when she is stabbed. But later you find out that when these two are close to each other, their powers weaken and they can be killed and shot, just like normal people. [Their powers weaken over a long stretch of time. Hancock still has all of his powers for some time after being around Mary, then gradually loses individual abilities. At this point in the movie Mary still had the power of impermeability.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
Entry After Hancock gets called out of jail, the officer tells him to rescue the cop that's down. The criminals pull out the rocket launcher and it pans over to a view of the officer when she is near the tire of the police car. But when Hancock gets to her, she's moved to the middle of the car somehow. [She was shot, but not incapacitated. There was time between the cuts for her to move to the center of the car.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
Entry In the beginning of the movie when Hancock stops the robbers and impales the SUV on the building, the engine should come out from the hood. Instead spires penetrate the engine block. [The engine "should"? One engine mount can have broken, tilting the motor over in its compartment, allowing the spire to pass through without the engine protruding.]
Corrected by John W Rosa
Entry When Hancock is leaving Ray's house after he agrees to the PR change, you can see the boom mic drop into the shot. [Projectionist errors in the theater are not movie mistakes.]
Corrected by John W Rosa
Entry John Hancock and Mary Embrey are both endowed with super powers, such as flight, healing ability, and invulnerability. The latter is demonstrated in that Hancock was unable to receive an IV when he was checked into the hospital (in the 1930s) as the needle simply broke off. How then is Mary able to have pierced ears? A needle would have broken, and even then, the wound would heal rapidly. [As seen in the movie, they lose their invulnerabilities when they are near each other. She might have gotten her ears pierced on one of those occasions. As to why the puncture didn't heal, that depends on the nature of their healing powers. If she was careful to leave an earring or something in the hole to prevent it from closing, it is not unlikely that she could keep her piercings, circumventing the healing power.]
Corrected by Twotall
Entry Hancock meets up with the super powered woman, who explains to him that he will start losing his powers the longer he's near by. Problem is, when he gets shot in the liquor store, he's nowhere near her. Even if he had just come directly from their home it wouldn't matter, because later in the movie it's established that Hancock regains his powers when he's only a few feet away from her in a very short time. (When he's leaps out the window, she miraculously awakens.) And he'd only been out of her sight for a few moments before he's up and flying again. [She told Hancock in the hospital that the "power lost" has never been this fast before, so either the writers caught the goof in time or it really is planned.]
Entry Hancock is all bulletproof, of course. But that shouldn't make his new, black superhero suit prepared by his PR manager bulletproof, too. When he is going into the war-zone in the bank robbery sequence, you can see the bullets bouncing off his suit, making no hole whatsoever. However, we know that his superpowers do not extend to his clothes, evidenced by his sunglasses being broken by bullets, and all his clothes burnt off due to a fire. [We do not know what the suit is made of. It could be kevlar which would make it bullet proof.]
Corrected by papajim
Entry After Hancock is shot and taken to the hospital, the press and police are swarming the place, trying to get a statement from the husband as he enters. With people everywhere and all eyes on Hancock, how did a group of heavily armed men all dressed in black casually walk in and start attacking? We're led to assume they snuck in, since no weapons are shown when we see the henchmen in the hallway, and the leader (Red) rides up the same elevator with the husband and son. [They were dressed in official looking clothes and were able to pass as members of the SWAT team.]
Entry (Spoiler Alert) Hancock is shot after losing his powers because he's been spending too much time around the other super heroine. And she's aware of this. She knows for a fact he's losing his powers, and she's well aware that this has happened several times before, which is why she left him in the first place. So what on earth possesses her to walk into the hospital and up to Hancock to tell him that face to face? She could have called the hospital, or given the message to her son or husband, since she knows full well that Hancock becomes vulnerable when she's around and she knows he's injured. She left him in the first place so he could heal up, so why would she choose to visit him now instead of at least waiting a few hours? (Hell, she left him alone for years, a few hours won't kill her.) [Character choice, not a movie mistake. She didn't know that people were coming to kill him. Obviously not able to get through to him on the hospital phones (people who are shot don't usually receive phone calls), she figured she would be safe to meet him briefly and explain why she can't be around him anymore.]
Entry If Hancock and Mary are connected (as established out of nowhere through the lengthy fight scene towards the end of the movie in the hospital, where Hancock takes the blows, and the damage appears on Mary's body), how does Mary flatline, and Hancock get up and leave in order to save her? Not to mention that, considering the focus they made on the 'connection' since Mary was on the threshold of death, a leap out a window should have left Hancock splattered all over the ground. [It requires a suspension of disbelief, but Hancock pulls together his last bit of strength to get out of the hospital. Sort of like Superman lifting a continent of Kryptonite in "Superman Returns"; super heroes are constantly called upon to use their last bit of reserve energy when the chips are down.]
Entry In scene where Hancock speaks to super woman in the kitchen after the bank robbery part, she spots a bruise on Hancock's hand, when the only chance he had to get bruised was in the bank, which was far away from her. [Plenty of time between the robbery and him showing up at the house with a bruise. ]
Entry There's inconsistency in Hancock's strength. When he stops the car in the beginning of the movie, he needs a few meters. When he stops the train, he doesn't move even one inch. [He's just as strong in both events. In the car his body is in motion with the SUV; he digs his heels into the pavement and pulls the car to a stop. On the tracks he braces himself against the pavement from a standing position and gets hit by the train. Obviously something to do with his powers. Whenever he's in motion (like all his first attempts at landing) he tears up pavement when trying to stop; when bracing himself standing still he becomes an immovable object.]

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