Collateral Beauty: Review

• This is a NON-Spoiler review for Collateral Beauty. Poor Will Smith first Suicide Squad and now this.

• Plot Summary: "When a successful New York advertising executive (Will Smith) suffers a great tragedy, he retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. When his notes bring unexpected personal responses, he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty."

• This movie was really really bad. The script is absolutely awful. I will say that Will Smith does really really great in this movie. It makes me really sad because he does fantastic but everything around him is terrible. It's definitely not his best movie. Besides Will Smith, everyone plays a jerk. There are so many subplots that aren't needed in any way. The editing and cinematography is not good. There's one shot that is showing only Edward Norton and half of his face is off screen. A lot of the scenes has someone that's awkwardly placed.

• The whole movie is like a really bad sitcom episode. I'm not a fan of the score. The whole movie is predictable. Whenever the movie tries to get you emotionally attached to anything it fails so hard and it's so cliche and dumb. They try to make me care more about Michael Pena than Will Smith and his daughter that died. They don't ever show Will Smith with his daughter before the death, so there's absolutely nothing to make me care about Will Smith's depression, and they actually try to make me care about Michael Pena.

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• The trailers lie to you about nearly the whole story. This isn't a spoiler, this is revealed in the beginning of the movie. Time, Death and Love aren't actually Time, Death and Love. So Will Smith's writes letters addressed to Time, Death and Love, and His "friends" and workers (Ed Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Pena) illegally get a hold of these letters and hire actors to pretend to be Time, Death and Love, and go and talk to Will Smith in the street to film him and digitally remove the actors, (Yeah because there's totally an app that allows you to digitally remove people at a Hollywood level) to make him look crazy and kick him out the company and get rich. Are you kidding me?!?!?!

• And finally the absolute worst thing of all, the dialogue. Oh my gosh!! Collateral Beauty is filled with cringe-worthy dialogue. It's so.....SO painful. There's entire unnecessary stupid scenes that make no sense. So many lines from everyone where the don't act like HUMAN BEINGS!!! Every single joke in the entire movie falls completely flat. Even the ones from the trailer aren't funny. So many things happen in this movie that are so laughably stupid. And it ends with a very unsatisfying and extremely confusing ending.

• Overall Collateral Beauty is really bad. I think that if you can COMPLETELY turn your brain off that there's a chance you'll think it's okay. Will Smith does a very very good job in this movie. Nearly the whole cast tries to make it work but you just can't make a bad script good. I know there's a great story in here somewhere but it's just so SO terribly made. This movie is quite terrible. I DO NOT recommend this movie. The grade for Collateral Beauty is D+