This is a superhero who, when he catches bad guys he is just as likely to wreck a dozen cars, a building or two and an entire freight train.

And, like the Parr family in the animated 2004 movie, The Incredibles, the people he saves can't stop complaining.

Enter Jason Bateman, whose character was right in front of that freight train.

Bateman plays a PR man with a lovely wife (Charlize Theron) who plans to give Hancock a new image and talks his new client into agreeing to go to jail (for ``criminal'' damage).

Hancock, the movie, combines humour and drama and is totally unbelievable. But it is entertaining.

Don't read this next sentence if you don't want to know more than necessary before seeing the movie. Hancock is not alone!

Also opening:

* There are echoes of Ingrid Bergman's Inn of the Sixth Happiness in Children of the Silk Road, M, (also called The Children of Huang Shi) the first official co-production between Australia and China.

In that 1958 film, Bergman set off over a mountain pass with 100 Chinese children to save them from the invading Japanese.

Also set during WWII, Children of the Silk Road is a highly recommended film based on a true story. It stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as an heroic young Englishman, George Hogg, who led 60 orphaned boys on a perilous journey of 1500 kilometres across the snow-covered

Liu Pan Shan mountains ahead of not only the Japanese, who would kill them, but the Chinese Nationalists, who would conscript them.

Also appearing in Children of the Silk Road is Australia's Radha Mitchell as a nurse who accompanies the group and Chinese actor Yun-Fat Chow (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) who plays an underground leader fighting against both the invading Japanese and the

Nationalists.