This Means War Reviews

No. More. McG. Please.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1/5

Seems to have been made by men who have never met a woman, much less asked her what she wants.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1.5/4

This Means War seems so concerned with being the best product, it doesn't even know how to be good trash.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2/4

This Means War is much like its protagnists, a strange mixture of soulessness and trying way too hard - and, frankly, no one likes a date who is quite so keen to impress.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2/5

Even though this movie has some good bits and sweet moments straight out of a teenage girl's dream journal, the weak spy subplot is meant to do nothing more than distract you from a bunch of supposedly romantic nonsense happening onscreen.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1.5/5

Rent-a-hack McG directs this brain-damaged screenplay with the skill of a particularly deficient farm animal, and humiliates three talented actors in the process.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1.5/5

Not even [the stars'] innate magnetism, comic timing, and outrageous gorgeousness can make this 14-year-old screenplay seem fresh, nor can the execution be willed into excellence by the hypnotic blueness of their eyes.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2.5/5

The guns might suggest it's shaping up to be an action spy caper, but it's just the wrapping for a romcom, like when pet owners shape mince into pellets to conceal medication from their dog.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1/5

While it wants to be all things to all people by aiming for a heady mix of manly spy action and ladylike rom-com flourishes, it ends up being more of a misguided "bromance" with Reese Witherspoon as the MacGuffin.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2/5

I didn't want either of the two guys to earn her affections. They're both superficial jerks - an opinion that didn't change throughout the entire film.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: C-

A good parody takes a finesse that isn't in the vocabulary of McG, a bargain-basement Michael Bay more concerned with cool than coherence.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 0/10

Far too unpleasant and ugly.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1.5/5

A ridiculous plot is punctuated by out of place action scenes and a chronic lack of humour

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2/5

The only outward emotion you'll experience will be if someone chokes on a piece of popcorn in a nearby seat.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1/5

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy.

Full Review | Comments (4) | Original Score: 1.5/4

At the heart of the movie is a romantic triangle between three impossibly good-looking people who are so uninteresting that we keep hoping the sleazy bad guy will show up and shoot them all.

Full Review | Comment (1) | Original Score: 2.5/4

Note to Witherspoon: This Means War is the sort of consumer product you're supposed to test before you win an Academy Award, not after.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1/4

The cast deserves better and certainly audiences do as well.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1/4

I guess we should call this a spy-comedy-action-romance. Or just call it what it is: dreadful.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: D

McG fails to conjure up any exciting or original set-pieces so it falls flat as an action film.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2/5

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