Reviews were a big part of any movie and bad reviews were bound to have an impact on first day collections. Especially with indie movies, they always need good reviews and then good word of mouth to spread.
So with early bad reviews in the critics and reporters screening, it was evident that the mood of people working on the movie would instantly become worse.
Rather than saying they were upset, they were devastated.
It even spreaded in Titan studios office and it was already getting considered as a flop movie among the employees and people were saying that it was money wasted. Ava was naturally upset and had to deal with taunts from Alberto.
Asano was angry too. He had poured everything into this project and it had come out as he had visioned. Even the marketing had gone very well.
Despite all that, critics hated it.