Director Rob Cohen
Starring Tyler Perry, Edward Burns, Matthew Fox
Rating M
Score 2.5/6

Dr. Alex Cross is on his last police duty to track down an assassin called Picasso, who’s been torturing and killing rich businessmen in Detroit. Soon when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits to end this once and for all.

For those of you keeping score at home Cross by James Patterson is another novel that has been adapted into a movie that I have not read. I was kind of impressed by Matthew Fox’s performance as Picasso, though the onscreen techniques that director Rob Cohen used to show the depth of Picasso’s psychosis seemed a little clichéd.
I am not overly familiar with Tyler Perry’s work, so it is good to see that his acting ability does not begin and end with all the work that he has put into the Madea franchise (though admittedly I have not watched any of the Madea movies).
This movie seemed to fall short of what it could have been, could there be a future Alex Cross franchise with Tyler Perry? It seems like a definite possibility. However, if the next movie falls flat like this one, I would doubt that Perry would get a trilogy.