Hancock

Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?

Hancock lands as a genuinely divisive misfire: critics broadly agreed the first half worked, with Will Smith's sullen, self-destructive superhero carrying real promise, but the pivot into a Charlize Theron-centered backstory fractured the film's tone so badly that most felt it never recovered. A minority found that twist emotionally rewarding; the majority called it the point where internal logic collapsed.