Not even the welcome distraction of Chris Pine’s world-beating forehead projected on a 20-foot screen is enough to leaven the crushingly awful latest from Hollywood’s own mini-monikered dud machine, McG.
With a plot that feels like it consists of equal parts Dumb & Dumber and True Lies, the execrable This Means War sees Tuck (Tom Hardy) and FDR (Pine) as two covert CIA spies who wage war against one another in order to win the hand of a woman (Reese Witherspoon) they appear to both be dating. At first they decide to let her choose between them. Yet, both spies eventually decide to employ their various tools of espionage to sabotage the other’s romantic endeavours.
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