... Alex Cross is certainly the weakest of the series, which reportedly will continue with Perry in the next film. God help us all. We can only hope for the best with that one.

| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2017

[Perry] has rarely been less convincing than when locking and loading from his home arsenal or dangling from a decaying Detroit edifice.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 27, 2012

Alex Cross is coarse, punishing, and, in all the ways that matter, conscienceless ...

| Oct 22, 2012

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.

| Original Score: D | Oct 21, 2012

A strong candidate for dumbest film of the year ...

| Oct 19, 2012

For a franchise with an off-the-charts nuanced thinker as its protagonist, Alex Cross isn't very smart.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 19, 2012

You may be expecting just a standard mystery/thriller. You'll get a mess that's so poorly constructed that if it were a pilot for a cop show, no network would pick it up.

| Original Score: 1.0/5.0 | Oct 19, 2012

Tyler Perry finds it easier to step out of Madea's dress than into Morgan Freeman's shoes in the thriller Alex Cross, a trite attempt at franchise building.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 19, 2012

Stripped down to his undershirt or brandishing an assault rifle, Perry looks both incongruous and ridiculous - an icon out of water.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 19, 2012

It feels almost cruel to laugh at such a blindly stumbling, dunderheaded action-thriller, but you won't be able to help it.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Oct 19, 2012

There's still a marketplace for a smart, well-crafted cat-and-mouse thriller. But "Alex Cross" isn't it.

| Original Score: D | Oct 19, 2012

Cohen squanders a surprisingly recognizable cast on a half-baked plot adapted from James Patterson's series of novels.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 19, 2012

The first thing you'll want to know about "Alex Cross" is: Can Tyler Perry carry it off? The answer is: Sort of, but not really.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2012

"Alex Cross" is a good example of what a seriously talented director can do with a heaping pile of garbage.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2012

Alex Cross is a misfire, but it's sometimes an entertaining one - enough to make you curious about who else Perry could go up against in another installment, and just how much overacting would take place.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 18, 2012

The opening scene of "Alex Cross" serves notice of what's to come by taking us down into a Detroit sewer.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2012

A grim, dispiritingly stupid waste of time, energy, money and talent ...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2012

The 6'5″ Perry's most believable moment is when his character has to reach something from a high shelf. That feels real.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 18, 2012

[Cross] has a really bad temper, really big guns and really bad dialogue. He will use all of them excessively if pushed.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2012

As goofy as it is gruesome.

| Oct 18, 2012