Tyler Perry’s first foray into the mainstream action genre was a big disappointment at the box office last weekend.

Despite heavy promotion by Perry and Summit, the studio behind the film, Alex Cross opened in 5th place with just  $11.8 million in its first weekend.

This marks the lowest-grossing debut of Perry’s acting career.

This number came in below both of Morgan Freeman’s films as Alex Cross. Kiss the Girls (1997) opened with $13.2 million and Along Came a Spider (2001) made $16.7 in its debut. Tyler Perry’s incarnation “brought out roughly half as many people on opening weekend as Girls did.”

According to studio research, 60 percent of Alex Cross’ audience was female, 68 percent was over 35 and 74 percent was African-American.