What do you get when you The Machinist Resurrection and A Thousand Words with lumps together

What do you get when you The Machinist, Resurrection and A Thousand Words with lumps together in a blender? Alex Cross, a film that ought never be made. In this picture we see a villain that looks as scary thin look like Christian Bale in The Machinist, we follow detectives chasing a killer she is always one step ahead as in the Resurrection, and finally, the level of the dialogue just as well as Eddie Murphy's latest film A Thousand Words.

Alex Cross is a detective who is ridiculously good at his job. Also home sounds through: as a true Sherlock Holmes sniffs it to his wife and he can tell you exactly that today they went to the spa, then to the hairdresser and she made apple pie. It's amazing how it all succeed him, but this is further also not explained (which fortunately happens in Sherlock). It's just good to him and that is pleasing to the film, otherwise they never identify that killer. Alex Cross is not pedantic like Sherlock, but incredibly irritating. At home, he is the perfect man; the whole perfect picture has been immediately put down by director Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious).
Alex Cross is assisted by his faithful partner Thomas Kane, who like most characters in the film actually gets virtually no background except his relationship with a colleague, what the wise course Alex Cross advises against paternal him. Advise against going there just as tedious as to basically all conversations in the film. You already know exactly what they are going to say, only you can not expect it to be said in such a strange way. For example talked about another department within the police which is always late with something, says Alex Cross out: "Hey again, slow sluggards!" No, he says: "As always, they are late."

Everything is presented in this film as if the viewer has a severe intellectual disability. So we as a viewer witnesses a murder but finds the director needed ten minutes later when the detectives arrive at the scene still add some flashbacks. We really still what we saw ten minutes ago, you know ... And we also understand that one department is always late when you just say, "Damn, they can deliver not once something on time?", Instead of: "Hey, this department is always too late now and again."

At first I thought that this film is a sort of parody of the whole against genre, but for that in any event Tyler Perry (who plays Alex Cross), his role too seriously. And unfortunately it is not just the bad script, even the actors did have to put a notch. Consider protagonists Tyler Perry (I Can Do Bad All By Myself), Edward Burns (Saving Private Ryan) and LOST actor Matthew Fox. The latter does not look particularly foxy in this movie because he's that aforementioned emaciated villain.



Now you are actually the whole movie long especially surprised at what that man did to his body, especially because you - while you look - looking for something to find interesting, and you distract from the bad calls and predictable events. Fox is almost unrecognizable; so thin and muscular at the same time he looks.

Although that losing weight is a performance and I do not expect the brand L'Oreal - where he makes advertising - very happy with it, the Fox acting leaves much to be desired in Alex Cross. He is very to the 'overacten', pretends he constantly lives on an overdose of Oxy, crystal meth, ecstasy and Ritalin, and that makes it all worse. He has a strange look in his eyes and moves very strange, but it does so only at times when you think, "Is this necessary?"
Anyways I wondered the whole movie if it was needed. The fact that Scrubs-joker John C. McGinley, a highly placed agent plays, only doing it but more like a parody, that should be it is not. All in all, Alex Cross especially a very hopeless piece of film that actually had not even allowed to appear on Blu-ray or DVD.