This Means War (2012)

This Means War (2012)

4/10

Starring:
Reese Witherspoon
Chris Pine
Tom Hardy
Til Schweiger

Directed by McG

Well, I am a huge fan of romantic comedies, and a good movie is a good movie regardless of who is in it… This is not a good movie though.

Directed by McG (Joseph McGinty Nichol), who is a producer of the TV series Supernatural and also directed both Terminator Salvation and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, he brings his boring, low-class touch to the screen by putting together two spies as wolves and a girl as bait.

Here we have one of the most useless ideas to base a movie on. Not only will this movie be a waste of time, you also have to bear with Chelsea Handler, whose acting career is one that needs to end now. Her acting all through the movie will either make you puke or make you laugh if you find mediocre sex jokes funny. Reese Witherspoon’s delivery of Lauren is not one that should go on her resume, neither is Pine’s delivery of a spy.

The story is simple, we have two field agent spies (Hardy and Pine) who get grounded to desk jobs for their carelessness. This gave them enough time for their social lives, which led them to meet a lady (Witherspoon) they both found fascinating, only to later discover they were dating the same girl.

Pine agreed to back down, feeling he is more of an alpha male than Hardy, but Hardy saw that as a challenge, so both decide to play the game of who gets the girl.

The problem with them deciding to this, is that we get to watch stupidity plastered all over the screen. On Lauren’s side is Trish (Handler), who gives her advice on how to choose the best out of the two.

This bad script was not the only the fact that this wasn’t one of the best romcoms of 2012, but having both Chris Pine and Tom Hardy on the same screen seemed like too much macho for one to bear.

The movie still had times I laughed, won’t lie, but the time Hardy got shot in the nuts is not one of them. Don’t worry, this is not a spoiler — you could see it coming a mile away, the movie did not try to have any suspense. I wonder how Hardy will be in the new Batman movie, where he plays Bane.

All in all, I’d rather sit down and watch a sponge dry than watch this again, this movie is lacking what is needed to make it memorable.