This Means War 2012 by AverageMansReviews

This Means War 2012 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/shooting/terrorism/drugs/burning/strangling/vehicle crash/Russia/animal cruelty/medical references to the rainbow and disabled community.

Two Agents and One Product Tester: briefly; we have these two CIA agents are on this case; Agent Franklin "FDR" Foster [Chris Pine:] he is an American, that is a womaniser and the other is Agent Tuck Hansen [Tom Hardy:] he is an English, that is divorced and has one son and out of the two of them; he is by far the mature one, but when they knowingly start dating the same woman in Lauren Scott [Reese Witherspoon:] she is an executive product tester for Smart Consumer [or Consumers: I apologise for any inconvenience; but I digress,] even though they put some ground rules in place, things quickly escalate.

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing of this 103 minutes film is good; it clearly knows what it is doing and it sticks to the plan

Art, action and comedy; when Agent Hansen and Scott go on a date without giving too much away; they go to the circus when it is quiet in the big top; this sequence of events is elegantly put together and shot from beginning to end and on another date they go paintball shooting with teams of capture the flag with a highly comical misfiring that anyone would dread and much later on we have a really entertaining closing section with this trio of performers I have already mentioned in the opening section.

Character developments and performances; on both counts for a good majority of the time, but did we do go down to the really immature level this section of this film, I mean if my memory is correct much more often than not it is; I can remember going to the cinema to watch this film and if these characters were in their early 20s, I would be more firstly lenient and secondly okay; they are using the outlay of coming-old-age, which there is a little this in this movie; but no way enough to qualify using this character outlay tag. But in reality; they are at minimum in their at best 29 to 34 age range and some of this immaturity, becomes quickly tiresome, when this content is first created it is now 2026 and my opinions haven’t changed over this time and whilst I'm on the subject I now look back on this film and other types of these films; the kind of encouraged men, women and/or others to have a big roster of either dates or/and anything else, so thanks for that... Not! But again they have the trio of performers that I have already alluded to in the opening section to spearhead this title and a good cast assembled behind them, without this trio this film would have been shooting blanks on multiple levels.

This film receives: 5/10, this film is mixed; I mean it is good up to a certain point, then it goes progressively down into immature territorial for section and then good again; but on the whole this mark is a true reflection of this movie in its entirety. This film has some awards accredited to its name such as 1 Winner in the form of; Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2013 EDA Special Mention Award Actress Most in Need of a New Agent Reese Witherspoon Tied with Katherine Heigl for One for the Money (2012). 6 Nominees which include but not limited to Russian National Movie Awards 2013 Georges Award Best Foreign Comedy of the Year.