Cross

I've read quite a number of James Patterson's Alex Cross, crime thrillers over the years, so I came to this with an enthusiasm that was quickly quashed.

The heavy handed script full of trite cliches, stereotypes and clumsy characterisations, is downright irritating. Its not the actors fault, in fact, most hand in pretty decent performances.

Sadly, so much else feels contrived and over stated, its hard to recommend this production. A production that's a million miles away from how the academic, astute and gentlemanly Cross, is depicted in the novels. Or put another way, what we get is an overdose of tough guy and not enough of a Sherlock Holmes style of character.

In summary, if this series had adhered more closely to the manner i...

I dont read thrillers, and dont watch many as movies either, so perhaps that should be taken into consideration with my review.

Overall, I wasnt impressed by the series. I dont have much patience with stereotypical super-villains you know, the evil geniuses who always seem to stay a step ahead of the good guys until there is about eight minutes left to watch. No wonder most of them value their careers over their lovely families. Okay, I exaggerate. And the whole who can I trust thing goes right off the charts as well. I dont need my movies to be total realistic, but sheesh, once I twigged to how the screenwriters think, I saw some plot twists coming a city block away.

And what is this modern tendency to mostly film scenes in the dark...