After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.
[Perry] has rarely been less convincing than when locking and loading from his home arsenal or dangling from a decaying Detroit edifice.
– Ben Kenigsberg,
Time Out,
27 Nov 2012
rotten:
Alex Cross is coarse, punishing, and, in all the ways that matter, conscienceless ...
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
22 Oct 2012
rotten:
So cloddish, slapdash, gracelessly written, and visually fugly that it's difficult to distinguish Perry's limitations in the role from those of the whole unpleasant enterprise.
– Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Oct 2012
rotten:
A strong candidate for dumbest film of the year ...
– Eric Hynes,
Village Voice,
19 Oct 2012
rotten:
For a franchise with an off-the-charts nuanced thinker as its protagonist, Alex Cross isn't very smart.