Thursday 6 December 2012

Alex Cross (2012) 6/10

Starring : Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Rachel Nichols, Edward Burns, Jean Reno
Director : Rob Cohen
Running Time : 102 mins

Alex Cross (Perry) is brought in on a case where a young woman has been brutally beaten, tortured and murdered by an unknown subject who becomes known as Picasso (Fox). As he gets more involved in the case, he discovers that Picasso plans on killing again, and pretty soon he finds his colleagues and his family might be in danger from the crazed killer.

I’m not ashamed I don’t like Tyler Perry. When he writes or directs a movie they tend to be formulaic and repetitive, and also make very little sense. Here we get to see him following someone else’s direction and someone else’s script, and clearly he isn’t very good at it. His rendition of Alex Cross is boring and flat, as are the performances of supporting cast members Nicholls and Burns, and it is only thanks to a good performance from Fox that this wasn’t a total wash.

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