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This Means War

(No longer in theaters)
  • Rating: PG-13 — for sexual content including references, some violence and action, and for language
  • Director: McG   Cast: Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Laura Vandervoort, Til Schweiger
  • Running Time: 120 minutes
  • Reader Rating:

    10 out of 10

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Genre

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Producer

Robert Simonds, Will Smith, James Lassiter, Simon Kinberg

Distributor

Twentieth Century Fox

Release Date

Feb 14, 2012

Release Notes

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Review

The gut-whomping, high-concept romantic thriller This Means War is not a distinguished addition to director McG’s oeuvre. The puffy-lipped gay-bar pinups Chris Pine and Tom Hardy play best-bud CIA agents competing for Reese Witherspoon, who scrunches up her face, rolls her eyes, and shows off her curvy little twig of a body. (The most finely tuned calipers could find no adipose tissue on any of them.) On leave from his role as Captain Kirk, Pine loosens up his Shatner-esque mugging muscles, but Hardy uses his patented poetic stupor as a force field, as protection from jokes more bludgeoning than anything in Warrior. — David Edelstein

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