Will Smith's new movie Collateral Beauty is his biggest flop ever

It’s more bad news for Will Smith’s new movie ‘Collateral Beauty’, after it took a pounding at the hands of the critics last week.

Opening on just over 3000 screens in the US, it’s opened to just $7 million (£5.6 million), making it an all-time career worst for the ‘Suicide Squad’ star.

The movie didn’t fair much better abroad either, making just $11.6 million (£9.2 million) in all, towards its production budget of $36 million (£28 million).

It comes despite a star-studded cast, including Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, Edward Norton, Michael Pena and Naomie Harris.

In it, Smith plays a high-flying advertising executive who is struck by sudden tragedy, and seeks answers from the universe, writing letters to Time, Love and Death, who emerge as characters in the movie.

Critics have roundly hammered the David Frankel-helmed movie, however.

Peter Travers in Rolling Stone wasn’t a fan, concluding: “It’s near impossible to make a movie with no redeeming features – but this tearjerker hits the zero-stars jackpot, taking an all-star cast on a journey from absurd to zombified with frequent stops at pretentious.”

Richard Brody in The New Yorker writes: “The failure of ‘Collateral Beauty’ is all the more grievous for the waste of its superb actors.”

Manohla Dargis in the New York Times added: “The five stages of grief sometimes seem applicable to movie reviewing, except that I usually skip denial, rarely get around to acceptance and generally just settle into anger, which is where I am with ‘Collateral Beauty.’”

In the Toronto Star, Peter Howell simply dubbed it ‘the year’s worst movie’.

The film currently sits with a lowly 14% approval rating on reviews aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.

It opens in the UK on Boxing Day.

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