10 Movies That Abandoned Awesome Ideas Halfway Through

10. An Alcoholic Superhero Seeks Redemption - Hancock

In the grand pantheon of intriguing movies that became something demonstrably worse half-way through, there's perhaps no topping Hancock.

The Will Smith-starring superhero flick was marketed as a black comedy about the titular alcoholic superhero, who attempts to redeem himself in the court of public opinion by teaming up with a PR consultant, Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman).

And for roughly its first hour, Hancock is basically that - an outrageous, irreverent piece of work where an irascible, troubled superhero tries to get his life back on track yet struggles with his own penchant for self-sabotage.

But the movie falls off a dramatic cliff once it reveals the big twist, that Ray's wife Mary (Charlize Theron) also has superpowers and is in fact Hancock's former lover.

At this point Hancock mutates into a bizarre supernatural romance which feels wildly at odds with the movie it was up to that point.

The chaotic shenanigans of the first hour are largely forgotten in favour of a decidedly less interesting love story, ensuring the movie ends on a series of increasingly underwhelming down-notes.