Star Rating: Alex Cross doesn’t work as a film, although it does prove that Tyler Perry can be a successful leading man in projects he has no creative and/or financial control over. He takes the reins from Morgan Freeman as the title character and is about as convincing as he can be in what’s essentially nothing more than an action/crime thriller. The issue here isn’t his casting or his performance; it’s the way director Rob Cohen and … more
This review of Alex Cross is brought to you, much like the movie, by Cadillac: The New Standard Of The World. It is also brought to you by the letters F and the letter C for completely cliche. This movie offers nothing original to the genre, the writing is filled with one liners. The plot and characters seem more like they come from serialized daytime TV dramas than they do from James Patterson. And the camera work is too stylized for its own good. I don't … more