Alex Cross (15)

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Time Out rating:

<strong>Rating: </strong>1/5

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<strong>Rating: </strong>2/5
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Time Out says

Fri Jul 6 2012

Box-office grosses in the US suggest there’s an endless appetite for movies featuring actor Tyler Perry as the character of Madea, an oversize African-American woman: as seen in films like ‘Meet the Browns’ and ‘Madea Goes to Jail’. But were audiences clamouring to see Perry as a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Charles Bronson? Alex Cross is the profiler and hero of James Patterson’s novels and is described as a guy who can tell what you ate for breakfast from 100 yards away. This sensory genius meets his match in a ‘stimulus-seeking, sociopathic narcissist’ killer (an emaciated, lizard-like Matthew Fox) who’s targeting corporate bigwigs. After Cross takes a stab at psychoanalysing him during one of their sporadic phone chats, things gets personal. In drag or out of it, the soft-spoken star has rarely been less convincing than when locking and loading from his home arsenal or dangling from a decaying Detroit edifice.

Author: Ben Kenigsberg

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Release details

Rated:

15

UK release:

Fri Nov 30 2012

Duration:

101 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Rob Cohen

Cast:

Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Rachel Nichols

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Rated as: 2/5 (3 ratings)

  • I saw both Alex Cross films and I am glad that Tyler Perry isn't just playing Madea all the time. I seen the same plots over and over again. When I saw him playing Alex Cross, he was not too bad and I am glad that he is doing something different instead of doing comedy. I love that movie. A lot of comedians went from comedy to play dramatic roles. I can see him doing roles like this.

    Brandon Stollings Wed Feb 6
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  • This has to up there with dross like Open Wallet (Water) or Aghast (Adrift) From strat to finish it is the most awful rubbish. Perry just isn't credible as an angry Cop. He comes across as a mildy irritated customer returning beans at Tesco. Even with Matthew Fox kills his wife. In fact, his laughable attempts an agry face are just that. Funny. Not in the least dramatic. There is nothing to suspend disbelief in this movie. You are always waiting for it to start. Which it never does. No suspense. No real Action. No Drama. No character development. And most annoying. No refund for having to watch it. Painfully and One Star at best.

    Uzziel Wed Dec 12 2012
    Rated as: 1/5
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  • Love crud like this so will have to av. it score wise. The most disasterous adult lead since Daniel Radcliffe turned 18, a villain who's OTT facial tic's would be totally at home in any panto, a "much loved and respected" cop killed in a dreadful fashion but no real impact shown bar Cross flinching like he's got a mild whiff of a fart.....and so on (& on) add up to much hilarity so ***, but I can't keep forgiving such inept drek on unintentional gwaffs, so, as an action thriller, *. If you have an unlimited card and want a good chortle, don't miss. If not & want an edge of seat nail biter, do miss.

    scrumpyjack Thu Dec 6 2012
    Rated as: 2/5
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  • Having read all of James Patterson's Alex Cross Books, & I have watched both "To catch a Spider" - Kiss the Girls" featuring Morgan Freeman as Alex I look forward to watching this film immensly

    Allen Wed Dec 5 2012
    Rated as: 4/5
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