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- 2012
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 37 m
- 2012
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 37 m
Summary The world's deadliest CIA operatives are inseparable partners and best friends until they fall for the same woman. Having once helped bring down entire enemy nations, they are now employing their incomparable skills and an endless array of high-tech gadgetry against their greatest nemesis ever - each other. (20th Century Fox)
Directed By: McG
Written By: Timothy Dowling, Simon Kinberg, Marcus Gautesen
- 2012
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 37 m
- 2012
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 37 m
This Means War
31
6.0
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Summary The world's deadliest CIA operatives are inseparable partners and best friends until they fall for the same woman. Having once helped bring down entire enemy nations, they are now employing their incomparable skills and an endless array of high-tech gadgetry against their greatest nemesis ever - each other. (20th Century Fox)
Directed By: McG
Written By: Timothy Dowling, Simon Kinberg, Marcus Gautesen
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
31
8% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
42% Negative
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
31
8% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
42% Negative
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
As is true in most buddy pictures, the real love in This Means War is between FDR and Tuck. Pine and Hardy are an odd choice as Men Who Bond. Pine behaves like a player on Entourage; Hardy broods as if he thinks dating is torture. But as a result, they're kind of cute in an itchy and scratchy way, bumping shoulders in a pantomime of what men do in love and war.
The best you can say about This Means War is that it would make a good date movie for couples in the witness protection program.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 202 User Ratings
6.0
46% Positive
93 Ratings
93 Ratings
34% Mixed
69 Ratings
69 Ratings
20% Negative
40 Ratings
40 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 202 User Ratings
6.0
46% Positive
93 Ratings
93 Ratings
34% Mixed
69 Ratings
69 Ratings
20% Negative
40 Ratings
40 Ratings
Other terrible, and horrible rating. This Means War have the same situation like What's Your Number? is a great comedy film, with an excellent (or in this case better) cast. Reese Whiterspoon is fantastic, Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, wow, awesome. The screenplay, soundtrack, score, all do of This Means War one of the most funny comedy films of this year.
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Individually they are all good here, though Hardy's skills don't necessarily translate that well to romantic comedy -- which could have been used to good effect, but McG doesn't have the touch to pull that off.
But Pine playing 1960s-era Shatner – sometimes subtly, sometimes not? That's a terrific gag. Really, it is. Totally inspired. It's just not enough to save this otherwise cookie-cutter bromantic comedy from being anything other than what it is: an inoffensive yawn.
If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.
Charmless and histrionic, this mean-spirited movie takes place in the toyscape of McG (Charlie's Angels), a monomonikered director who makes Michael Bay seem thoughtful.
The result is 98 minutes of moronic stupidity already being labeled on the Internet as "the worst movie of the year."
I think this movie is exactly what it promises to be. If you think you're going to like it, you probably will. If you think you'll hate it, you should probably see something else. It was a completely predictable entertaining bromance. The focus was more on the friendship between the two men, then the love triangle, and the action was very entertaining and tongue in cheek. If you want suspense and mystery, do not watch this movie. If you want something light, and funny, this is a good pick.
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It was okay, but it wasn't that half bad. I'm not so sure why anybody called this a flop, but it did receive a minor success at the box office just barely made it to the top 5. I thought Reese Witherspoon's career was going to be doomed again thanks to the awful 2010 flop with Owen Wilson. But I thought her performance in "This Means War" is pretty good, but the whole movie is decent at some point. I have a hard time with this one because the critics are right on the ball and McG should've just stick to Charlie's Angels unless you want to be famous for being a joke of a music video-turned-movie director. Sure, I love romantic comedies, but some **** including those Heigl what's-her-name embarrassments. And I'm not so sure on the term "action romantic-comedy" either. I felt that something needs to change drastically in "This Means War" including a confusing script and the chemistry (which is good, but not great) between Reese, Pine, and that other dude. I'd prefer a rental, but I wouldn't be too excited. I forgot, Tom Hardy in the movie, Pretty weird.
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I'm so happy that Tom Hardy and Chris Pine still have a career after this movie, because this almost ruining their acting career's, well to me it did.
This Means War is about these two deadly CIA operatives are inseparable partners and best friends until they fall for the same woman. Having once helped bring down entire enemy nations, they are now employing their incomparable skills and an endless array of high-tech gadgetry against their greatest nemesis ever - each other.
The one thing I always hate about these brain dead action comedy movies, is the fact that the action and comedy itself isn't well done and it feels out of place. Well what am I expecting from the same director who previously bought us Ouija, Terminator Salvation and 3 Days To Kill. If you haven't guess yet I hated this movie.
This Means War unsettle me in so many wrong ways. The all film feels like it was written by a 13 year old boy who loves action films and was a big fan of Chris Pine and Tom Hardy, and also a fan of boobs, explosions and simply turning off you're brain and just take whatever is on the screen. This is the time were my job feels like living torture.
The director of the film "McG" who's the best example to show to young film maskers out there of what not to do or what to avoid making a film, because this guy can't even directed action or even a good movie. Every shot looks cheap, lazy and uninspiring.
The writing in this movie is... AWFUL!. Every time a character says something that suppose to be charming or cool comes off painful and extremely cliche to the point where I wanted to punch my TV screen to end the movie quicker. Dialogue is the most important thing to have in movies, and yeah in silent movies you didn't hear people talking, but you sawed the letters of dialogue on the screen and their lips moving, but when your main problem is the dialogue in you're film, you're movie is going nowhere.
These one scene in this movie where Tom Hardy and Chris Pine meet with Reese Witherspoon character. At one point she couldn't decide who's better in bed, Hardy or Pine. So she has this big drama you know the crying and the running away to cry somewhere else. Now right they you can clearly see that the film wants me to care about her character and I simply don't, she's a freaking **** and deserves lots of pain, because she dated two guys at once, cheating on them and can't decide who's better in bed and she only pick one of them who's good at sex. Do you know why I hate this character and I will pay good money to see Captain Kirk and Bane teaming up to ruining this women life.
Overall This Means War is terribly cliche with a weak finale and a awful screenplay. Nobody should waste their time with this film because it's just not worth it.
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This Means War is one of the most poorly concived and poorly made films in recent memory even for a romantic comedy. tom hardy is really out of place and chris pine and reese witherspoon do not give their best performances by a long shot. it's clear this was reedited to within a inch of it's life and none of it helps the terrible slightly sinister story, awful characters and worthless action sequences
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Production Company
Overbrook Entertainment,
Robert Simonds Productions,
Dune Entertainment,
Genre Films
Release Date Feb 17, 2012
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
Tagline It's spy against spy.
Awards
Teen Choice Awards
• 3 Nominations
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination
