Olga Kurylenko plays a thief talked in to one last heist in Momentum – but not many people saw her efforts at the cinema (Picture: Signature Entertainment)

If you missed out on seeing Morgan Freeman’s new thriller Momentum at the cinema over the weekend then you’re not alone.

In fact, it appears that very few people did see the movie in the ten cinemas across the UK that were showing it – since it made a mere £46 in its first few days on release.

That adds up to an average total of £4.60 per screen, in case you hadn’t worked it out already.

Yikes.


Momentum has also been released on digital download (Picture: Rex Shutterstock)

Momentum, which also stars British actor James Purefoy and former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko as a thief who becomes caught up in a terrorist plot after being persuaded in to committing one final heist.



The movie was released in various regional cinemas including Kidderminster, Hull, Borehamwood and Morecambe – and was also given a simultaneous release via digital download, which could of course have contributed to its box office performance.

However the film suffered from poor reviews – with the Observer critic Mark Kermode describing it as ‘utter pants’ – while you’d be forgiven for not knowing Freeman was in it given he was absent from all the posters and promotional materials.

Guess it doesn’t have a whole lot of momentum then…

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Six other movies that hardly anyone went to see at UK cinemas Motherhood (Uma Thurman, 2009) – made £88

Deviation (Danny Dyer, 2012) – made £95

Dark Tide (Halle Berry, 2012) – made £97

The Chumscrubber (Jamie Bell, 2005) – made £125

The Reverent (Rutger Hauer, 2011) – made £247

Run For Your Wife (Danny Dyer, 2012) – made £602

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