Boredom? I mean, sci-fi movies are popular but certainly don't always make the draw as big action films. Which is why sci-fi has branched more and more in to big action films (see SFDebris opening comments on Transformers Revenge of the Whatever).

Beyond that, I don't watch movies any more so I really don't have the answers.

Oh boy. I don't have a problem with someone having a differing view, but that person either
1) is an idiot.
2) is bringing in some outside vendetta against this film.
3) does not know how to have fun.

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The site is called War is Boring. He reviewed a movie about war and says it was boring. Does what it says on the tin, really.

Saw it over the holidays and enjoyed it quite a bit, though I was definitely expecting the very end to involve Emily Blunt getting Alpha-blooded again because there is no way they survived that sequence at the Louvre as first-time mortals.

But whatever.

The fact that my brother-in-law thought he'd already seen the recent movie where Tom Cruise saves the world from aliens  (he'd seen the other one) might also be indicative of why it didn't do well.

I get what did happen, I just thought it was nuke-the-fridge level unbelievable. Everything up until the last reset was fine since the Tom Cruise character would have as many tries as needed and the Emily Blunt character apparently could learn fast (plus she had lots of past experience). But for the last run into the Omega they got one shot, and we're to believe that they both survive being dragged through walls and falling down multiple floors of parking garage before getting to the Omega.

If the Emily Bunt character distracts the Alpha at the end and then manages to get the Alpha-blood magic bean again, then she'd be reliving the day again instead of Tom Cruise. Obviously that didn't happen and it would be thematically awkward, but I really thought that's where it was going.