Alex Cross (2012)

All Critics (118) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (106) | DVD (2)

[Perry] has rarely been less convincing than when locking and loading from his home arsenal or dangling from a decaying Detroit edifice.

November 27, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kenigsberg

Time Out

Top Critic

Alex Cross is coarse, punishing, and, in all the ways that matter, conscienceless ...

October 22, 2012 Full Review

David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

So cloddish, slapdash, gracelessly written, and visually fugly that it's difficult to distinguish Perry's limitations in the role from those of the whole unpleasant enterprise.

October 21, 2012 Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

A strong candidate for dumbest film of the year ...

October 19, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Eric Hynes

Village Voice

Top Critic

For a franchise with an off-the-charts nuanced thinker as its protagonist, Alex Cross isn't very smart.

October 19, 2012 Full Review

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

Perry's supposed to be its center. And as an actor - certainly as a movie star - he's absolutely nowhere to be found.

October 19, 2012 Full Review

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

Where to start with all the things wrong with this film?

April 16, 2013 Full Review

Matt Neal

The Standard

Never quite rises above a run-of-the-mill, cop-chases-killer-thriller flick, or much expands beyond would happen if an hour-long TV drama was given an extra half-hour to stretch.

February 5, 2013 Full Review

Neil Pond

American Profile

Alex Cross is an extremely generic detective story plagued with problems ranging from the poor casting of Tyler Perry to Rob Cohen's bad direction.

February 4, 2013 Full Review

Jeff Beck

We Got This Covered

Director Rob Cohen does what he can to liven up the humorless take on a Lethal Weapon-like concept.

February 3, 2013 Full Review

Phil Villarreal

OK! Magazine

Suffering from delusions of franchise, this is more Scooby-Doo than Silence of the Lambs, and bears all the hallmarks of a cult bad film in the making.

December 17, 2012 Full Review

Murray Robertson

The List

Instead of the thinky, psychological crime thriller it should have been, Rob Cohen's Alex Cross offers a lifeless and generic actioner.

December 11, 2012 Full Review

Stephen Carty

Flix Capacitor

Cohen slices and dices the finale so much you cannot fathom it.

December 7, 2012 Full Review

Graham Young

Birmingham Mail

If you crave a genial crime thriller about a forensic psychologist then go and buy a boxset of Cracker. Alex Cross is simply an inexcusable misfire.

December 3, 2012 Full Review

Ben Rawson-Jones

Digital Spy

A lot of rather unpleasant things unfold, delivered with a consummate laziness that it's terribly hard to engage with.

December 3, 2012 Full Review

Ross Jones-Morris

HeyUGuys

The only appeal here is the sick kick of watching a franchise blow itself to bloody stumps.

November 23, 2012 Full Review

Matt Mueller

Total Film

It doesn't take a detective to determine it's not the fault of Tyler Perry that 'Alex Cross' is subpar.

November 20, 2012 Full Review

Linda Cook

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

The film is crammed with inevitable (and admittedly enjoyable) cop-vs-psycho cliches, yet the proficient, pacy direction by veteran action specialist Rob Cohen keeps the fights, carplay and chases moving at a nifty, time-killing clip.

November 10, 2012 Full Review

Jim Schembri

3AW

Alex Cross wasn't conceived as spoof, but such poorly written and executed dross is laughable.

November 5, 2012 Full Review

Michael Simms

FILMINK (Australia)

The screenplay and direction deliver several scenes that are unintentionally funny, being either too leaden or too ridiculous

November 3, 2012 Full Review

Andrew L. Urban

Urban Cinefile

Unsure whether it aspires to be a police procedural, an action thriller, a revenge drama or a buddy movie, Alex Cross is a mess of a film, devoid of tension

November 3, 2012 Full Review

Louise Keller

Urban Cinefile

Alex Cross is clumsily directed, poorly acted, and shoddily scripted to the point that with the right crowd you may find yourself laughing at the all the things wrong with it.

November 3, 2012 Full Review

Blake Howard

2UE That Movie Show

So many other things are wrong with the wretched 'Alex Cross' that Perry's somnambulistic performance doesn't even crack the top five.

November 2, 2012 Full Review

Jeffrey Westhoff

Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

It's an embarrassment for all involved.

November 1, 2012 Full Review

Dominic Corry

Flicks.co.nz

Late-night TV fodder for insomniacs, perhaps, nothing more.

October 31, 2012 Full Review

Ed Gibbs

The National

• 1. Alex Cross: He won't stop. I've seen his face. I've heard his voice. I will meet his soul at the gates of hell before I let him take a person that I love away from me.
  – Submitted by John T (46 days ago)
• 1. Picasso: Inflicting pain is a crucial part of my true calling.
  – Submitted by John T (46 days ago)
• 1. Tommy Kane: Hey, Monny, what's with that kneecap shot of yours?
  2. Monica Ashe: Up yours!
  3. Alex Cross: It's like working with sixth graders with you two.
  – Submitted by John T (46 days ago)
• 1. Tommy Kane: You don't play the game, the game plays you.
  – Submitted by John T (46 days ago)
• 1. Alex Cross: My wife's dead because of you. And soon you'll be dead because of me.
  – Submitted by Matthew M (2 months ago)
• 1. Bomb Squad Head: We don't have time to check all theses cars. One of them could blow up any minute.
  2. Captain Richard Brookwell: Great. We're sitting in the middle of Baghdad.
  – Submitted by Matthew M (2 months ago)