This Means War

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This film follows FDR Foster and Tuck, two CIA operatives, who are best friends in the field. They come across the same woman, Lauren Scott. They both decide to chase after her and tell her not tell her that they know each other. It soon turns into spy against spy as they continue to fight the love of the same woman. 

This film was directed by McG. This film doesn't follow the general norm of most cinematic films. There is a blend between the two genere's romantic comedy and spy action flick. However, this does more focus on the romantic comedy aspect instead of the spy action. Which only sucks for the villain. This film also had very different comedy than what has been seen in most recent films-its actually got some mind to it. There also isn't any toilette humour-shocking. Now granted, the story itself with the characters isn't full of heart. You have one girl dating two guys at once, and two spies who are trying to out do one another to win her affections. It's practicably impossible to make these characters lovable, as is expected in romantic comedies. There is some minor action, but not enough to make it an action film. There's only about ten minutes of fighting because a random villain was thrown into the mix. However, I think the spy villain was only added to remind the audience that they're spies. Apart from the small snag of non-lovable characters needed for a romantic comedy, and not enough action to make it spy action, that story itself is good. It takes a twist on the modern cinema films. There is also some predictability to it in that you know who wins aout midway through the film. 

The cast was good, but not great together. Chris Pine played the role of FDR Foster. He is the standard playboy of the film. He was good in creating the playboy image, but didn't too well changing his character style when he falls in love. He made the playboy struck by love appear a little too cheesy. Tom Hardy played the role of Tuck. He was good in his role being the straight up romantic. He kept a realism to it that was good. Reese Witherspoon played the role of Lauren Scott. She did good being a character who testing the waters of romance. There wasn't much that could've been done with this character, but what she did was good. She kept the character realistic and somewhat kind. Chelsea Handler, Trish, was good. She didn't have enough time to create a dynamic character, but she did good in bringing some humorous energy to the film. Til Schweiger, Heinrich, was good being the villain. He was only given an opportunity to be moderately mincing.  It also sucks that he had such a sucky death sequence in the film.

I give this film... 4 out of 5 stars! It's mix of genre's was good, but not great. The lack of lovable characters and lack of action hurt the film. Either the film had to eliminate the villain Heinrich, or up the likability its characters. 

Answer to last blog: Roger Jackson has been the ever popular voice for Ghostface for all four of the Scream films. 

Que: What other film has actor Chris Pine starred in?

Terminator Salvation

Just My Luck

Just Like Heaven

Inception