Alex Cross Reviews
The Standard
Where to start with all the things wrong with this film?
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| Original Score: 1/5
American Profile
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The List
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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Flix Capacitor
Instead of the thinky, psychological crime thriller it should have been, Rob Cohen's Alex Cross offers a lifeless and generic actioner.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Birmingham Mail
Cohen slices and dices the finale so much you cannot fathom it.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Digital Spy
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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
HeyUGuys
A lot of rather unpleasant things unfold, delivered with a consummate laziness that it's terribly hard to engage with.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Top Critic[Perry] has rarely been less convincing than when locking and loading from his home arsenal or dangling from a decaying Detroit edifice.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Total Film
The only appeal here is the sick kick of watching a franchise blow itself to bloody stumps.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
It doesn't take a detective to determine it's not the fault of Tyler Perry that 'Alex Cross' is subpar.
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| Original Score: .5/4
3AW
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
FILMINK (Australia)
Alex Cross wasn't conceived as spoof, but such poorly written and executed dross is laughable.
Urban Cinefile
The screenplay and direction deliver several scenes that are unintentionally funny, being either too leaden or too ridiculous
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
2UE That Movie Show
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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
So many other things are wrong with the wretched 'Alex Cross' that Perry's somnambulistic performance doesn't even crack the top five.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Flicks.co.nz
It's an embarrassment for all involved.
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| Original Score: 1/5
The National
Late-night TV fodder for insomniacs, perhaps, nothing more.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Cinemalogue.com
The style isn't matched by the substance in a film that strains unsuccessfully to be taken seriously.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Yes, outside of a dress, Tyler Perry is a powerful screen presence.
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| Original Score: B
