The director of Charlie’s Angels – ‘McG’ hits the movies again with This Means War.
The ravish pairing of Chris Pine and Tom Hardy alongside Reese Witherspoon works a treat for this predictable yet laugh-out-loud romantic comedy. Like Charlie’s Angels it attempts to take the cushy softness out of rom-coms, by adding elements of danger, separating the film from the genre and appealing to different audiences.
This is Hardy’s first role in a rom-com. Despite sticking to a tough guy role, his character certainly appears soft on the inside, and his versatility as an actor is shown as he plays to role with such ease and precision. Hardy’s and Pine’s natural chemistry on-screen and an equality rewarding script, formulates a ‘bromance’, which becomes the admiring factor within the movie.
The film centres upon two top CIA agents (Pine and Hardy) who test their friendship when they partake in an ‘i-want-i-get’ challenge to win the affections of a beautiful woman (Reese Witherspoon) who they both meet separately on the same day.
The emotional level is not quite the same as some of the rom-com greats, but if you can look past the stalker tendencies and two-timing; there is a romance somewhere in the mist you can enjoy.
Like every rom-com the eye candy is abundant and pristinely turned out, and Witherspoon is always a treasure in such a role - the sweet girl next door, who even manages to get away with the fact she’s two-timing two guys.
As the plot unravels the ending becomes pretty predictable, but it doesn’t have the potential to ruin the film, it just reassures you that what you thought was going to happen… does. Critics have disregarded this movie, mainly down to the genre, yet – audiences seem to love it!
(Take on this challenge: I bet you can’t make it all the way through the movie without weighing up the options as to which one you’d choose… Pine? Or Hardy?)
Certificate: 12
Release Date: 2 march 2012
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy
Director: McG
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