This moving picture contains thrills , unstoppable action , fighting , pursuits and lots of deaths , as it has a high body count . The cop and psychologist Alex Cross (Tyler Perry) works for the Detroit Police Department along with his colleague Tommy Kane (Edward Burns) , and promising rookie Monica Ashe (Rachel Nichols) investigating deaths of some criminals . At the beginning , it seems to be a reckoning. Alex Cross is on his last police duty and along way he finds out the murders result to be commited by a killer series nicknamed Picasso who's been torturing and killing wealthy businessmen in Detroit . While Cross is dedicated to his work , he's just as committed to his home life, and is excited to be aware his wife Maria (Carmen Ejogo) is pregnant once again . Soon when the assignment gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits to end this once and for all. Don't ever cross Alex Cross !.
The film contains high-energy action , noisy thrills , struggles, emotion, and spectacular scenes with an impressive climax . It's a passable action movie plenty of thrills, chills , explosions , firepower, gun-play and breathtaking chases . The picture is thrilling and exciting, though also a routine actioner with no much sense at times . The flick contemplates the old themes of trust , friendship , vengeance , humiliation and cold violence . There are echoes here of many other action movies and behind the deceits , plot twists and manipulation . An adrenalitic thriller with unstopped action-packed and grisly violence , being loosely based on the novel Alex Cross by James Patterson and particularly on the character of the expert Forensic psychologist Cross . This is a nail-biting picture stars Tyler Perry, who's plunged into a highly dangerous cat and mouse game , vengeance and deception - where things are not always what they appear to be , in which the stubborn investigator refuses to be defeated , as he battles his way to an overwhelming ending . Morgan Freeman who played the two previous roles suggested the British Idris Elba (Mandela) ; however , eventually the charater was to Tyler Perry playing a lawman torn between justice and personal vendetta , he is a good actor but more adequate in his ordinary comedy genre than in mystery/thriller genre . His antagonist turns out to be Matthew Fox , famous from ¨Lost¨ series , here he lost weight with a strict diet and doing gym to earn muscle for playing the role , as he took about five months to prepare for his character which he felt was enough time not only to get his body into shape . There are continuous remarks in the novel "Alex Cross" to both Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry, the references to Freeman pay tribute to his role as Cross in ¨Kiss the girls¨ (1997) by Gary Fleder and ¨Along came a spider¨ (2001) by Lee Tamahori .
The film is produced with high budget by John Friedberg , George Furla and writer James Patterson himself. The motion picture was regularly directed by Rob Cohen . A nice director of hits and one of the 1970's "baby moguls", Rob built a thriving career as a producer, before concentrating full time on directing from the 1990's, with high adrenaline action blockbusters such as ¨xXx¨ (2002) and ¨Dragon, Bruce Lee life¨ (1993). He is the creator of ¨The Fast and the Furious¨ (2001) saga , Universal Pictures' biggest franchise of all time. He often directs high-energy action films as ¨Daylight¨ (1996), ¨The Fast and the Furious¨ (2001), ¨xXx¨ (2002), and other inferior successes such as ¨Stealth¨ , ¨Skulls¨, ¨Dragonheart¨ , among others. Rating : 5/10 . Mediocre , only for Alex Cross saga followers.
