Collateral Beauty

New Line Cinema | Release Date: December 16, 2016

6.1	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 185 Ratings

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dspratlinDec 23, 2016

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What’s it about?

An advertising executive (Will Smith) totally shuts down when tragedy strikes. His “concerned” friends (Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, Michael Pena) try to help when he starts questioning the universe and writing letters to the concept of Time, Death and Love.

What did I think?

The intriguing trailer for this film is a lie. The concept, so artfully set up in the preview, is destroyed minutes into the film, creating a jarring effect that leaves a bitter, mean-spirited aftertaste. Collateral Beauty is emotionally manipulative (think Hallmark Channel movie-level) and seems to be created specifically to tug so **** hard on heartstrings that it makes some kind of discordant non-musical cacophony of awfulness. It’s a movie purely about emotions that feels like it was made by someone who doesn’t understand how to human at all. It gets two stars for what I thought the concept was, and the rest of the three taken off for what the actual movie robbed me of.… Expand

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EpicLadySpongeDec 16, 2016

Collateral Beauty takes its name, but senses no actual beauty of quality in terms of movie reviewing. Will Smith attempts to make a shine, but fails to impress any (and by that, I mean hardly) of us. If you're making tears during the film,Collateral Beauty takes its name, but senses no actual beauty of quality in terms of movie reviewing. Will Smith attempts to make a shine, but fails to impress any (and by that, I mean hardly) of us. If you're making tears during the film, that must mean that this movie failed to surprise you. Don't worry, it happened to me too.… Expand

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qamasterFeb 28, 2017

The idea is not bad, but poor implementation. Also have superfluous scenes. Film tightened somewhat. Draw of the main character is unconvincing. I couldn't believe in it. in this film playing good actors, but it does not save the film andThe idea is not bad, but poor implementation. Also have superfluous scenes. Film tightened somewhat. Draw of the main character is unconvincing. I couldn't believe in it. in this film playing good actors, but it does not save the film and watch without fast forward difficult. the whole movie - nonsense… Expand

2 of 3 users found this helpful21

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MattBrady99Dec 31, 2016

Remember when everybody said that "Gods of Egypt" and "Independence Day: Resurgence" are the worst movies of 2016. Well, along comes this turd.

When I saw the trailer for "Collateral Beauty", I thought it's going to be a modern day "ARemember when everybody said that "Gods of Egypt" and "Independence Day: Resurgence" are the worst movies of 2016. Well, along comes this turd.

When I saw the trailer for "Collateral Beauty", I thought it's going to be a modern day "A Christmas Carol". I mean, it looked like it could be an emotional movie, despite looking Oscar bait. It's not until I saw the movie and the actual plot.

Here the real plot: A successful New York advertising (Will Smith) executive suffers a great tragedy, he retreats from life. He goes to work and builds elaborate Domino sets then watches them collapse while he refuses to communicate with other people. His co-workers react to this by hiring actors to pretend to be Death, Love and Time so they can film him talking to them then editing them out the video so it looks like he's mentally unstable to be a shareholder.

Yes, that's the actual plot to the movie and it's awful. No wonder the trailer false advert this, because who would want to see this.

How the hell did this get made? And why are there so many big name actors involved? I think this and "Nine Lives" are the biggest WTF movies of 2016. I just can't get my head around this. These Oscar winners & nominees agreed to be in this?

"Collateral Beauty" isn't just the worse movie of 2016, but of the 21st century. What a cruel, heartless, boring, Oscar bait trash of a film. It's the worse kind of Oscar bait, as it ticks all the boxes for the purpose of earning nominations for Academy Award.

What's worse is that title of the movie "Collateral Beauty" is literally said six times in the movie, but yet, I have no idea what it's suppose to mean. And frankly, I don't give a damn.

This is once again another Will Smith Oscar bait movie. There was "Seven Pounds", "Concussion", and now "Collateral Beauty". If I have to pick this or "Suicide Squad", for his worse movie yet, this easily takes the cake. Smith himself isn't really the leading man, but neither supporting.

At least the rest of the actors are actually trying, as the performance in this are not bad. But that's the only "good" thing I can say about this.

Overall rating: This movie can go **** itself.… Expand

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TVJerryDec 17, 2016

This film revolves around a trite trigger for tragedy: the death of a child (and it's set at Christmas to make it even more hackneyed). In this case, it's Will Smith who's can't recover from his young daughter's death. Three partners of hisThis film revolves around a trite trigger for tragedy: the death of a child (and it's set at Christmas to make it even more hackneyed). In this case, it's Will Smith who's can't recover from his young daughter's death. Three partners of his New York ad firm (Kate Winslet, Edward Norton and Michael Peña) concoct a plot to address his depression by hiring 3 actors to portray Time, Death and Love. Now, you've got Helen Mirren in the mix, but even her screen charms can't rescue this tear-laden attempt to stir the emotions. The dramatic effects of the story affect everyone involved with painfully predictable results. Smith cries in almost every scene, turning his misfortunes into shameless treacle. Although most of the performances are effective, David Frankel's direction and the script's transparent manipulation had my eyes rolling, instead of crying.… Expand

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DavidV293Dec 22, 2016

The movie that no one asks for but it's released anyway. Yes, it's those type of movies that come out during Christmas time and yes it's another one of those cliche garbage movies like New Years eve from 2011. Combine a bunch of good actorsThe movie that no one asks for but it's released anyway. Yes, it's those type of movies that come out during Christmas time and yes it's another one of those cliche garbage movies like New Years eve from 2011. Combine a bunch of good actors and get this.… Expand

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The3AcademySinsAug 4, 2017

I haven't seen an idea so poorly executed in a film ever. Everything about this movie sounds great on paper, but on screen it becomes a pithy, misguided film trying to deliver platitudes on high. The talented cast does the best they can, butI haven't seen an idea so poorly executed in a film ever. Everything about this movie sounds great on paper, but on screen it becomes a pithy, misguided film trying to deliver platitudes on high. The talented cast does the best they can, but unfortunately, this film is a black mark on all of their resumes. The film's handling of it's subject matter (without going into spoilers) is delusional at best and evil at worst. You'll laugh at how ridiculous the movie is, and be angry at how the story resolves.… Expand

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jb1296Jun 22, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Collateral Beauty is a film which mainly centers around the emotional core and how some people deal with loss of a family member. However, there are certain aspects of this film which I can't ignore there are characters which do horrible things to a character going through a difficult time and rather than support him, they try and prove he is insane. There are other things which are bad and the other issue with this is the writing, this film is poorly written.… Expand

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JesseDillingerApr 25, 2023

a stupid STUPID movie. "Let's make this grieving guy look like he's mentally unstable to get him tf out of here" what a horrible movie

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