Hancock (2008)

Most people think so. 78% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 46%, but audiences disagreed.

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? Wikipedia ↗

Hancock is a 2008 American superhero film directed by Peter Berg, starring Will Smith as the title character — an immortal, super-powered being living in Los Angeles who fights crime while drunk, causing millions of dollars in collateral damage and earning the hatred of the public he saves. Hancock's first act was an inventive deconstruction of superhero mythology, exploring what would actually happen if a god-like being had substance abuse problems and no interest in public relations. Will Smith brought his trademark charisma to a role that required him to be unlikeable, and the early scenes of Hancock drunkenly causing more damage than he prevents were darkly comic.

The film took a sharp tonal turn in its second half, revealing a mythological backstory that many critics felt was tonally inconsistent with the grounded first act. Hancock earned $629 million worldwide on a $150 million budget, a strong commercial return driven by Smith's star power and the appealing high concept.