Parker, who escaped prison with several other criminals, attacks the hospital to get revenge. The last time Hancock and Mary were together was eighty years before when Hancock was attacked, and his amnesia is a result of the attack. Mary appears, explaining that when the immortals paired up, they would slowly lose their powers, becoming mortals. That night, Hancock stops a liquor store robbery, only to be shot while saving the cashier and is hospitalized. Mary admits Hancock is actually her husband from the past, but that she chose to quietly leave him once he had lost his memories of them. Ray witnesses the fight, later confronting the duo. Hancock disbelieves her about the last claim, and flies away to inform Ray, only for Mary to chase him and incite a violent battle across the city. Mary claims they have lived for three thousand years, are the last of their kind, and are siblings. The next day, Hancock and Mary speak in private. Carrying a drunk Ray home, Hancock kisses Mary, only for her to toss him through the wall, revealing that she has superpowers, too. Ray tells Hancock that Mary is Aaron's stepmother and that his biological mother had died in childbirth. He had awakened in a hospital with doctors telling him that he was in a mugging and was clubbed in the head.
Hancock has dinner with Ray and Mary, and reveals that he is amnesiac and an immortal, having woken up in a hospital 80 years ago with no memory of his identity. He is praised as a hero and becomes popular. He foils a bank robbery orchestrated by Red Parker, with Hancock slicing off his hand to prevent him from activating a detonation switch. The Los Angeles' crime rate rises and Hancock is eventually released to help. He is also later visited by Mary and Aaron who bring him homemade spaghetti. Hancock is visited by Ray, encouraging him to be patient. Hancock reluctantly agrees, struggling to fit in at prison, and quickly causes trouble when he assaults two fellow inmates that refuse to leave him alone. Ray encourages Hancock to issue a public apology, and then go to prison for a time, until Los Angeles needs him properly. Hancock meets Ray's family, his son Aaron, who is a fan, and his wife Mary, who takes an immediate dislike to Hancock. Thankful and seeing him as a career opportunity, Ray offers to help improve Hancock's public image. Hancock rescues Ray Embrey, a public relations specialist, from an oncoming train, which he irrationally derails to save Ray.
Acting as a haphazard superhero in Los Angeles, he is often ridiculed and hated by the public for his drunken and careless acts, and becomes enraged when called an "asshole". John Hancock is an alcoholic, reckless superhuman imbued with flight, invulnerability, and super-strength. It grossed $629 million worldwide, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of 2008. Hancock received mixed reviews from critics who praised its performances, visual effects and premise, but criticized its execution and failure to deliver on its potential, especially during its second half. The film was released on July 2, 2008, in the United States by Columbia Pictures. In the United States, the film was rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America after changes were made at their request in order to avoid an R rating, which it had received twice before. It languished in development hell for years with various directors attached, including Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Jonathan Mostow, and Gabriele Muccino, before being filmed in 2007 in Los Angeles with a production budget of $150 million. The story was originally written by Vy Vincent Ngo in 1996. Eventually one person he saves, Ray Embrey (Bateman), makes it his mission to change Hancock's public image for the better. It tells the story of a vigilante superhero, John Hancock (Smith) from Los Angeles whose alcoholism and reckless actions routinely cost the city millions of dollars. Hancock is a 2008 American superhero film directed by Peter Berg and starring Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Jason Bateman.
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