Alex Cross Movie Review

In fact, Cross is always thinking what everybody is thinking, and often before they realize they’re thinking it. We know this, because Perry’s self-consciously cool performance seems styled to remind that his Cross is — in addition to being a Very Serious Man — the smartest guy in the room. Always endearing.

At any rate, that means it won’t take him long to zero in on his latest target, a sadistic assassin who chemically paralyzes his victims — leaving them immobile but by no means numb — before torturing them for his own amusement. He’s the kind of villain who, as brilliant as he is, can’t help but to engage in that only-in-the-movies practice of leaving behind a clue to taunt the cops. In this case, it comes in the form of cubist charcoal sketches that earn him his nickname: Picasso.

Naturally, Cross deciphers the clues — but when he closes in on Picasso, things become personal and our movie goes from being a cat-and-mouse thriller to a revenge picture, as Cross goes rogue to settle the score once and for all.

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