Alex Cross Reviews
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
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
Big Hollywood
The good news is that Tyler Perry isn't terrible as the title character. The bad news is that the movie itself IS terrible.
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| Original Score: 1
Schmoes Know
What's really a kick to the nether-region is that the story is so bad that you never really get a chance to admire or dislike any of the acting.
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| Original Score: 2/5
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
FILMINK (Australia)
Alex Cross wasn't conceived as spoof, but such poorly written and executed dross is laughable.
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
Akron Beacon Journal
Silly plotting, murky action sequences, indifferent acting -- and a lot of violence against women. Not even the locally shot scenes are reason enough to see it.
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| Original Score: 1/4
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Tyler Perry's bid to reinvent himself like Bruce Willis or Matt Damon in Alex Cross is ultimately a failure, but if it's any consolation to him, he's hardly the only reason this film is not worth your time.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The Standard
Where to start with all the things wrong with this film?
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| Original Score: 1/5
Top CriticA strong candidate for dumbest film of the year ...
Flicks.co.nz
It's an embarrassment for all involved.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Las Vegas Weekly
The relentless ugliness of the story isn't thrilling or involving, and its vague undercurrent of misogyny makes it even more off-putting.
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| Original Score: 1/5
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
When you make Tyler Perry run and point a gun, you remember why nobody's ever used him as an action figure before.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The National
Late-night TV fodder for insomniacs, perhaps, nothing more.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Birmingham Mail
Cohen slices and dices the finale so much you cannot fathom it.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The direction by Rob Cohen is so careless that the film's climax is set up by a car crash that, if I am not mistaken, is completely coincidental.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Cohen's resume argues that he's a better action director than this; the laziness is inexcusable. The denouement is easily decoded and suitably cheesy.
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| Original Score: 2/4
For a franchise with an off-the-charts nuanced thinker as its protagonist, Alex Cross isn't very smart.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
