This Means War

The title sounds like this is the revenge of RuPaul´s Drag Queens, ready to strike back. But in reality this is a action comedy, signed and delivered by the director McG of  both Charlie´s Angels movies. To see Reese Witherspoon in a action comedy sounds like a good idea, since she usually sticks with comedy only. Does This Means War deliver a good time, or is this a desperate attempt to just make box office profit?

FDR Foster ( Chris Pine ) and his best friend Tuck Henson ( Tom Hardy ), both work as CIA agents. On a mission in Hong Kong, german criminal Heinrich ( Til Schweiger ) manage to escape, but his brother Jonas is killed. Heinrich swears to revenge his brothers death. CIA boss Collins ( Angela Bassett ) see the danger Foster and Tuck has caused, to protect them she assign them both to desk duty. Tuck wants to find someone to love, his ex-wife Katie ( Abigail Spencer ) does not want to go out with him again, even if he wants to make a fresh start. His son Joe ( John Paul Ruttman ) is his motivation, to keep going on. One day Tuck watches a tv commercial about net dating. He starts his own profile, just to see if he can find someone special. He gets in contact with Lauren Scott ( Reese Witherspoon ), a product testing executive, who also wants to find someone special. They meet one day and everything works out great. Problem is, Foster also met Lauren and falls in love with her. Who will she choose?

It´s easy to see director McG knows this genre, he knows we need some heavy action, and less romance. But here, we get this mix put together, a bit too loose. Charlie´s Angels movies gave us a fun combination of girls kicking ass, as well as dressing sexy, wich is always nice. This Means War is a more serious try to combine romance with action, wich could have worked well with a good script. There is no good script here, instead Reese Witherspoon saves the day with her comic timing, but she can´t save this motion picture on her own. There are a few moments where i enjoy myself, like Lauren´s best friend Trish ( played by Chelsea Handler ), when she starts telling Lauren how you get men, and what to do. The CIA story is not that interesting, wich is too bad. With a better written script this could have been something. This Means War will not break any new grounds, or deliver anything special. But, if nothing else is on TV, you can watch this and at least get some fun moments, but don´t expect much more.

Rating: DD