| Original Score: C- | May 19, 2012

Bathed in bright plastic colours, scored to sleazy jazz funk, This Means War comprises endless short scenes that never quite coalesce into a real motion picture.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2012

McG directs as if on autopilot, and while the action scenes are technically proficient they're so lacking in energy and momentum you kind of wonder if the adrenaline junkie wunderkind threw them in as some sort of afterthought.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 17, 2012

A film during which very bad things happen very often, and none of them are noticeably funnier than genital trauma brought on by an air rifle.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 2, 2012

All sorts of laugh-free and unrelaxed shenanigans.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 1, 2012

No. More. McG. Please.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 1, 2012

Yet another case of Hollywood execs trying way too hard to give the audience what they think it wants.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 29, 2012

Smart, funny and really quite hot, this is worth a look no matter what you think of Charlie's Angels.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2012

The director is McG, who allows no motion to pass without a musical energy boost.

| Feb 21, 2012

Judging by the evidence, it isn't easy making a good romantic comedy, even if it has a high-concept premise like this one...

| Original Score: 2.1/2 | Feb 17, 2012

The best you can say about This Means War is that it would make a good date movie for couples in the witness protection program.

| Original Score: C | Feb 17, 2012

Slides by on the strength of Tom Hardy.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 17, 2012

Not even cutie-pie Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon can hold our attention for long in this ridiculous, bombastic romance.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2012

An aggressively annoying movie. It isn't just bad. It grates. It frustrates. It baffles with its incompetence.

| Original Score: 1.0/5.0 | Feb 17, 2012

You can imagine how the ball got rolling on "This Means War.'' You can also imagine how the folks who rolled the ball started to lose their minds.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 17, 2012

In the dictionary, "frothy" is defined as being "light and entertaining but of little substance." This Means War is a totally frothy film. And that's a good thing, at least here. (Sometimes substance is overrated.)

| Feb 17, 2012

It's a bad sign when a film which aims only for froth can't achieve more than moments of embarrassment, punctuated with sporadic agitation.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2012

Proves to be little more than the canned Spam of the movie world - bland, over-processed and cheap, even when it's spending millions engulfing highways in balls of ludicrous flame.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 17, 2012

If you want some nice light yuks, "This Means War" should do the trick.

| Original Score: B | Feb 17, 2012

It's a glossy entertainment machine -- and I was entertained.

| Feb 16, 2012