Total FilmMiscast and underwritten, Alex Cross does not reinvent Tyler Perry, or James Pattersons character, or anything, really. The ...
Entertainment WeeklyCan a phenomenally successful entertainment entrepreneur best known for playing a fat, mouthy old black lady in floral-print...
Film School RejectsAbysmal script; deductions are rarely explained or logical; Ed Burns’ character exists only to state the obvious; there are ...
Chicago Sun-TimesOh, yeah, Alex Cross is a brilliant detective, all right. He has such Sherlockian intuition in "Alex Cross" you might almost...
USA TodayTyler Perry should not give up his day job. At least not until he chooses better dramatic vehicles for branching out.
Chicago Sun-TimesThe 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 com...
Chicago TribuneThe closer Cohen rams the camera to his pummeling actors, the more you don't know what's actually transpiring.
New York Daily NewsPerry is a likable presence, but the movie around him is such a mess that he never gets to prove his potential.
Los Angeles TimesCross has a really bad temper, really big guns and really bad dialogue. He will use all of them excessively if pushed.
Wall Street JournalThe opening scene of Alex Cross serves notice of what's to come by taking us down into a Detroit sewer.
San Francisco ChronicleAlex Cross is a good example of what a seriously talented director can do with a heaping pile of garbage.
Washington PostThe first thing you'll want to know about Alex Cross is: Can Tyler Perry carry it off? The answer is: Sort of, but not reall...
New York PostCohen squanders a surprisingly recognizable cast on a half-baked plot adapted from James Patterson's series of novels.
Entertainment WeeklySo cloddish, slapdash, gracelessly written, and visually fugly that it's difficult to distinguish Perry's limitations in the...
New York MagazineAlex Cross is coarse, punishing, and, in all the ways that matter, conscienceless.
ReelViewsAlex Cross, loosely adapted from the novel Cross by James Patterson, has all the earmarks of something contorted and condens...
JobloPerry and the mostly decent cast keeps ALEX CROSS from being a total bomb, but the direction and editing is a mess, robbing ...
Film FractureDirector Rob Cohen has lost all grasp of what makes for an intriguing action film with Alex Cross.
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Partial Film Information
Director: Rob Cohen
Writer: James Patterson
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Cast: Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Rachel Nichols
Release: October 19, 2012
Writer: James Patterson
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Cast: Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Rachel Nichols
Release: October 19, 2012
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