The movie flopped period. Some PR fans can spin all they want,but it flopped. Their are several reasons they did so. Number 1, the director. I don't care how nice the guy is or how much a fan of the series he was. Haim Saban should have never been allowed to pick the director period. Lionsgate should have paid Saban to not be involved with the project. When you let Saban to be hands on. Stuff going to be done on the cheap. Case and point hiring a Director from a movie that bombed before this one. Number 2,the release date. Any way you slice it putting it up against BATB,Kong,and Logan was asine period. Number 3,the promotion of the movie. It had very little promos,ad,etc in the US or OS. If you have faith in a project. You promote the hell out of it. Clearly Lionsgate/Saban did not have faith in it. Finally the tone of the movie. The movie should have been none stop action,martial arts,and explosions. That was what the general audience was expecting. What they got was breakfast club junior. The fandom may have loved that,but the general audience didn't.