Alex Cross (2012)
Directed by Rob Cohen
Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of fire. As he mulls over accepting a job with the FBI, he is told that a friend has been murdered and he vows to track down the killer. Soon, he and his team are forced to match wits with a psychotic contract killer, who displays a disturbing commitment towards seeing his job through.
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In order to look more cadaverously sinister, Matthew Fox (Lost) might have shed more weight for a role than anyone since Christian Bale went skeletal for The Machinist.
Here, Fox is nothing but lean muscle; a kind of jacked version of Christian Bale in The Machinist.
Directed by action movie veteran Rob Cohen (Fast and the Furious, xXx, The Mummy 3, Stealth), Alex Cross fits in lock-and-step with the other entries of the filmmaker’s resume: thin, B-movie genre entertainment.
Other than the cool choice of a decrepit theater as location for the final showdown, director Rob Cohen (xXx) works from the standard action playbook, down to the predictable "twist."
Director Rob Cohen is known for mindless mayhem - xXx , The Fast And The Furious and The Mummy 3 - so it is entirely possible that Alex Cross was also his chance to spread his cinematic wings and tackle something more cerebral.
Even reliable action helmer Rob Cohen (“The Fast and the Furious,” “XXX”) seems to be off his game here.
Director Rob Cohen specializes in action and is best known for founding the "XXX" and "The Fast and the Furious" franchises.
The director of “ The Fast and the Furious ” and “ XXX ” leaves his bloody prints all over the place, indelibly.
According to press releases published in the summer of 2010, British actor Idris Elba (Prometheus, and the television series Luther and The Wire) had signed on to play Cross, with David Twohy (Pitch Black, The Fugitive, A Perfect Getaway) set to adapt Patterson’s twelfth book of the series, simply entitled “Cross.”