Undemanding in the worst ways, the movie’s director and writers have gone to considerable lengths to make this experience as effortless as possible, yet they make it so very difficult to endure.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 23, 2023

This Means War depends on audiences buying into a rather predictable premise of two CIA agents falling for the same woman.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2022

Be forgiving, and it will probably be enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 1, 2020

Only the most hardcore Witherspoon fans are likely to enjoy this film.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

It feels more like the first vague sketch of a goofy film concept, than anything else. And it's the film sheer confidence in its own stupidity that impresses me.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2020

This is a loud, obnoxious endeavor completely devoid of anything remotely coherent. About the biggest surprise in this plodding and predictable fare is the fact it manages to completely waste the talent of all three of its leads.

| Original Score: F | Apr 13, 2019

Some version of this may have had more personality, unpredictability and overall life to it, but the final product is so smoothed out that we can almost tap out a rhythm in time with the story developments.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 6, 2019

Really, it's the sparks between Pine and Hardy that make This Means War worth watching, as cute as Witherspoon is.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 4, 2019

This Means War may not be the highlight of Tom Hardy or Chris Pine's careers so far, but it's a fun and forgettable holiday romance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2018

If you don't think too hard about it, you will enjoy yourself; otherwise the film is patently absurd.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 9, 2018

A string of frat boy pranks and countless privacy violations, all in the name of love (?).

| Aug 23, 2018

If democracy ever comes to an end in the United States and future movie historians look back for the first indication that the fascists were taking over, This Means War will be a good place to start.

| Aug 10, 2018

Plot wise, the film is quite shaky.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 28, 2017

In continuing his trend of campy dialogue and cliched special effects, [McG] has made a romantic comedy involving dueling spies that even a monkey could figure out.

| Aug 21, 2017

The most dire romantic comedy in years.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

This Means War finds all new ways to insult 50% of the world's population. Women, hey? Who needs 'em? Not men, that's who! Until they do, I guess

| Sep 8, 2013

The film's three charming leads help make this superficial comedy worth seeing.

| Original Score: 3.0/5 | Jun 30, 2013

The laziest, most cack-handed, most unromantic and most excruciatingly unfunny rom-com I can remember having to sit through.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 14, 2013

It's not the most realistic spy film or the most tear-enducing romance; however, This Means War works as a middle-of-the-road guilty pleasure.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 30, 2012

Being a little absurd is acceptable, but completely throwing reality out the window in a film that tries to ground itself in it is pushing it too much.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 16, 2012