Will Smith stars in this horrifyingly cutesy Will Smith film in which bereavement is offset by soft-focus platitudes about wonder and compassion.
A few joyous moments of unintentionally hilarious dialogue aside, this is truly tedious.
Will Smith sells himself short yet again in this torturously schmaltzy rip-off of A Christmas Carol.
It’s the script itself which acts as the deadweight here in what turns out to be one of the soggiest, most manipulative melodramas imaginable.
In a month of A Monster Calls and Manchester By The Sea, Collateral Beauty serves up a hollow portrait of grief. Despite its quality cast and slick visuals, the result is sombre and saccharine rather than uplifting.
It makes so little sense it begins to seem as if the filmmakers are pranking us.
A manipulative misfire of a film.
A grieving Will Smith and supporting cast of A-listers fail to convince in this cynical seasonal weepie.
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