Goofs for
Hancock (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In one scene, the TV news announcer states that Hancock has been taken to "Los Angeles General Hospital" but in the following scene, there is an exterior shot of the hospital with the sign "Mercy General Hospital".
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of spaghetti and meatballs in the bowl, when Hancock first arrives at Ray's house and is invited for diner, changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening scene when an SUV is fleeing the police it turns a corner and crashes into the side of a car. In the next scene the side of the SUV has no damage.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When Hancock picks up the police cruiser to protect the downed female officer, it can be seen that the car has no transmission or prop-shaft, despite having supposedly just been driven to the heist.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the film, during the car chase when Hancock is in back of the suspect's car and breaks the bottle, the next shot has him holding a different looking, very obviously fake broken bottle.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ray is waiting in traffic on the train tracks, he is talking to his wife on the cell phone, holding it up to his left ear. He ends the conversation. But in a later long shot, the phone is still being held up to his left ear.
  
  
• Continuity: After impaling the SUV on the tower, Hancock is drinking in a bar. Close shots show him holding a bottle of beer in his left hand whereas long shots show the bottle in his right hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When Hancock is talking to Mary whilst eating a banana, the banana appears eaten in one shot and then back to uneaten in the next.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mary throws Hancock out of the house we see him crash into a gold Dodge Intrepid. When we see the aftermath the next morning the Intrepid is fine and the cars on the other side of the street are the ones damaged.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the latter part of the movie, Hancock talks to Mary about the way they kissed - but in the cinematical cut they never did kiss, because Mary threw him through the wall before their lips touched. However, the kiss is restored in the DVD version.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Multiple times throughout the movie you can see the monitors reflected in Hancock's glasses.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the YouTube video of the whale, 'Walter' is called a gray whale by Ray (Jason Bateman), but it is clearly a humpback.
  
  
• Continuity: When Hancock throws the Ray's car into the other cars and stops the train, you can see Ray's windshield gets slightly cracked. When Hancock drags the car into the driveway a few moments later the windshield is as good as new.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the bedroom scene with Ray and Mary, in the evening after Ray meets Hancock for the first time, when the shot follows their dog across the room, what appears to be a crew member pushing the dog from behind the dresser is actually just the shadow of the dog's tail on the wall. If you watch the dog you'll see he is watching something/someone for a signal to the left of the screen behind the bed.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Upon very close inspection of Hancock's 1931 Movie Ticket to Frankenstein, the date on the stub reads 21 June 1931. Universal's Frankenstein was not released until 4 November 1931.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Hancock says that when the nurse tried to give him a shot the needle bent. Hancock stabs Mary with a knife and it too bends. But if you look at her ears there are earrings - it's very plausible that she got them pierced during the time Hancock and her were together in the past.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: (1:03:40) When the people are running away in fear from the tornadoes, suddenly in the left of the screen, a strange character runs to the right of the screen. The character is about twice as tall as the normal people and has a robot-like appearance. It's a street performer on stilts and in a costume.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ray is about to be hit by the train, long shots show that his car is on the tracks where as shots of in the car you can see out his window that the car appears not to even be on the tracks.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Hancock throws Michel up into the air, to make him go up that high he would have to use so much force that the boy would have suffered massive and instantly lethal internal injuries; many of his bones would have broken and his internal organs been turned to jelly at a minimum. Much the same would have happened when he caught the boy again, although to a lesser degree since he would have reached terminal velocity of 100 mph or so on the way down.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Youtube scene, the full screen viewings of the Youtube clip show the Youtube logo to be superimposed upon the bottom right of the clip, but in the wide shot it is seen on the left.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Hancock and Ray are talking through the glass in prison, the cutout that Hancock is about to make in the glass is clearly visible. It is best seen running across Ray's right cheek.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mary takes the fork from Hancock to straighten it up, the fork is shown straight a fraction of a second before she moves her hand over it.
  
  
• Continuity: The towel Ray Embrey uses to open the jar for Mary is not the same one he picks up from the table. The former towel is tri-colored whereas the latter is green with a tight gold pattern.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the movie, Mary flies to Hancock's trailer and after Mary gets out of Hancock's trailer, the top of her SUV is seen and Mary gets into it. But in the next shot they are standing in front of each other and there's no car, as it wasn't there when Mary came. However, in the DVD version Mary drives to Hancock's trailer instead of flying.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Hancock instantly halts the train, the train driver would have been seriously injured due to the impact speed. After the train has stopped, the train driver can be clearly seen to be uninjured through the train engine cabin windscreen/windshield.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the scene when Hancock throws Michel in the air, Hancock catches him. In the background you can see the car which is later hit by the refrigerator is already damaged. However, only the windows are broken; this could have occurred from the concussion of Hancock's landing or have been broken by flying pieces of asphalt.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Mary is in the hospital bed, just after being shot, the blood stain on her shirt changes in between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Near the end of the movie when Mary is 'dying', the monitor has a label at the top of the screen that says 'leads off' showing that the monitor isn't actually hooked up.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: According to the movie's premise, Hancock and Mary become mortal and weak when in proximity to each other. However, they affect each other not immediately, but over time as they spend more time together. This explains why Hancock was unfazed when Mary threw him through the wall, and why Mary was unharmed when Hancock attempted to stab her in the kitchen.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: When it is reveled that Mary has powers, she says her and Hancock are brother and sister, but then are regarded as husband and wife throughout the rest of the movie. However, Mary initially told Hancock that she was his sister as she didn't want to tell him the truth. Hancock rebutted that by saying that a brother and sister wouldn't kiss like they did the night before.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: Hancock demonstrates the problem with sex earlier because of his strength. Wouldn't Mary have killed Ray the first time they did for the same reason? In fact, the film implies that Hancock cannot have normal sex with ordinary women because of the force of his ejaculation. This problem would not have existed for Mary.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: When Mary regained consciousness as Hancock distanced himself, she would have regained her gag reflex as well, and would have choked on an endotracheal tube being used to maintain her airway. However, the device in her mouth was a much shorter tube called a Guedel or laryngeal airway, which can be used in semi-conscious people to prevent tongue-swallowing.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Hancock is dying, the paramedic shines a torch/flashlight in Hancock's eyes. The assumption is that Hancock is unconscious and as such his pupils should have been dilated. However, Hancock's pupils are seen to been fully contracted.
  
  

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