History YMMV / CollateralBeauty

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The film's premise involves three people hiring a trio of actors to pretend to be personifications of Love, Death and Time to help their depressed friend/business partner move on from his daughter's death and save their struggling company. It's also all played as a serious drama. A lot of people felt the premise was trite and {{glurge}}y at best, and at worst made three of the leads come off as manipulative and unsympathetic. The studio actually seemed to realize this, given how the trailers [[NeverTrustATrailer completely obfuscate]] the whole {{Gaslighting}} aspect of the story. While the movie did manage to be a financial success thanks to the overseas box office, it failed to recoup its budget domestically and was considered to have underperformed.
* CriticalDissonance: Critics hated this movie - it is sitting at 14% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences were more forgiving, with the audience reaction hanging around 64% on the same site.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: And the studio actually seemed to know it, given how the trailers completely obfuscate the whole {{Gaslighting}} aspect of the story.

* TheScrappy: Some viewers find Whit, Claire and Simon pretty unsympathetic in their attempt to {{gaslight|ing}} Howard by digitally removing the actors and confronting him with evidence that he's not all right to force him to go through with the sale of the company.

* ShockingSwerve: [[spoiler:Madeleine is actually Howard’s wife, and all their scenes have been a twisted, cruel role play of having just met.]]

* TheScrappy: Some viewers find Whit, Claire and Simon pretty unsympathetic in their attempt to {{gaslight|ing}} Howard by digitally removing the actors and confronting him with evidence that he's not all right to force him to go through with the sale of the company. In their defense, Howard's inability to deal with his grief ''has'' destroyed their careers, and despite this they do seem to honestly want to help him.

* AidienceAlienatingPremise: And the studio actually seemed to know it, given how the trailers completely obfuscate the whole {{Gaslighting}} aspect of the story.

* TearJerker: Everyone in the main cast has real trauma to work through, and anyone who has been in a similar situation can emphasize with them.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some viewers feel that Whit, Claire, and Simon are unsympathetic and that therefore the time spent on resolving their problems was wasted.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Some viewers feel that Whit, Claire, and Simon are unsympathetic and that therefore the time spent on resolving their problems was wasted.

* InternetBackdraft: When the film started playing, it revealed that the trailers were [[TrailersAlwaysLie fibbing]]. Namely, Time, Death and Love are early on revealed to be actually actors {{gaslighting}} Howard. However, this has been mitigated [[spoiler:by TheReveal that they were in fact Time, Love and Death after all.]]

* AllStarCast: The movie does have a pretty impressive cast.

* InternetBackdraft: When the film started playing it revealed that the trailers were [[TrailersAlwaysLie fibbing]]. Namely, Time, Death and Love are early on revealed to be actually actors {{gaslighting}} Howard. However, this has been mitigated [[spoiler:by TheReveal that they were in fact Time, Love and Death after all.]]
* TheScrappy: Some viewers find Whit, Claire and Simon pretty unsympathetic in their attempt to {{gaslight}} Howard by digitally removing the actors and confronting him with evidence that he's not all right to force him to go through with the sale of the company. In their defense, Howard's inability to deal with his grief ''has'' destroyed their careers, and despite this they do seem to honestly want to help him.

* CriticalDissonance: Critics hated this movie - it is sitting at 14% on Rotten Tomatoes. Audience were more forgiving, with the audience reaction hanging around 64% on the same site.

* InternetBackdraft: Any goodwill the film had disappeared when it started playing and revealed that the trailers were [[TrailersAlwaysLie completely lying]]. Namely, Time, Death and Love are actually actors {{gaslighting}} Howard. However, this has been mitigated [[spoiler:by TheReveal that they were in fact Time, Love and Death after all.]]
* TheScrappy: Whit, Claire and Simon are this for their attempt to {{gaslight}} Howard.
* TearJerker: Due to AdultFear, seeing Howard lose his daughter is actually a little heartwrenching.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Most viewers agree that the plotline between Howard and Time, Love and Death are at least the most watchable things about the film. Too bad that they got intersected with the terrible plotlines of Whit, Claire and Simon, all of whom are terrible people.

* InternetBackdraft: Any goodwill the film had disappeared when it started playing and revealed that the trailers were [[TrailersAlwaysLie completely lying]]. Namely, Time, Death and Love are actually actors {{gaslighting}} Will. However, this has been mitigated [[spoiler:by TheReveal that they were in fact Time, Love and Death after all.]]
* TheScrappy: Whit, Claire and Simon are this for their attempt to {{gaslight}} Will.
* TearJerker: Due to AdultFear, seeing Will Smith's character lose his daughter is actually a little heartwrenching.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Most viewers agree that the plotline between Will and Time, Love and Death are atleast the most watchable things about the film. Too bad that they got intersected with the terrible plotlines of Whit, Claire and Simon, all of whom are terrible people.

* TearJerker: Due to AdultFear, seeing Will Smith's character lose his daughter is actually a little heartwrenching.

* InternetBackdraft: Any goodwill the film had disappeared when it started playing and revealed that the trailers were [[TrailersAlwaysLie completely lying]]. Namely, Time, Death and Love are actually actors {{gaslighting}} Will. Howevr, this has been mitigated [[spoiler:by theReveal that they were in fact Time, Love and Death were genuine after all.]]

* {{Glurge}}: One of the most common criticisms for this film is that it's deliberately manipulating the audience and is obvious OscarBait. It also didn't help when it was revealed that TrailersAlwaysLie.
* InternetBackdraft: Any goodwill the film had disappeared when it started playing and revealed that the trailers were [[TrailersAlwaysLie completely lying]]. Namely, Time, Death and Love are actually actors {{gaslighting}} Will.
* TheScrappy: Whit, Claire and Simon are this for their attempt to {{gaslight|ing}} Will and [[KarmaHoudini got away with their action]].

* {{Glurge}}: One of the most common criticisms for this film is that it's deliberately manipulating the audience and is obvious OscarBait. It also didn't help when it was revealed that TrailersAlwaysLie. Critics and audiences were unanimous in panning the film, making it a BoxOfficeBomb.

* InternetBackdraft: Any goodwill the film had disappeared when it started playing and revealed that the trailers were [[TrailersAlwaysLie completely lying]]. Namely, Time, Death and Love are actually actors {{Gaslighting}} Will.
* TheScrappy: Whit, Claire and Simon are this for their attempt to {{Gaslighting}} Will and [[KarmaHoudini got away with their action]].

* HeartwarmingMoments: Various kissing scenes can really warm the heart after seeing the characters go through hard times.

* TearJerker: Seeing Will Smith's character lose his daughter can be heartwrenching.

* {{Heartwarming}}: Various kissing scenes can really warm the heart after seeing the characters go through hard times.

TearJerker: The man losing his daughter.

Heartwarming: Various kissing scenes.