Says a lot when I'm rooting for Matthew Fox in the end fight...

I was rooting for this film. A popular James Patterson novel series, Tyler Perry in a serious role. But, it didn't work. The acting was jagged, the characters undeveloped, the story unbelievable. In an era of great TV thrillers, movies like this have to pull up their socks. I give this film a 4 (poor) out of 10. Sorry, Tyler.

Maybe the WORST movie I've watched in all 2012.

I was very excited about the "franchise reboot" but the raccord failures are evident and the script is very very weak. Just an excuse to see some "random action" and that's all.

Very disappointed.

Tyler Perry has improved in serious roles since this movie. He was still miscast though.

I'm sorry I wasted two hours on this drivel. The plot is inane, half an hour in it comes apart completely. After the stupid pseudo-tech babble, they top things off with [spoiler]that drawing clue nonsense and ridiculous building infiltration[/spoiler]. The entire film just strings together bits, lines, and tropes from other movies, except they don't make sense in the new context.

Most of the acting is terrible, too. The only convincing ones were Alex's mother and the children. And, of course, Giancarlo Esposito, who is always awesome. I was especially disappointed in the performances of Matthew Fox and Jean Reno, who I usually find more convincing.

This is all topped off with poor visual effects, and a jarring amount of product placement for Chevrolet and Cadillac, down to playing songs with Cadillac in the lyrics. Good grief.

When you read and like the books, forget this movie.

This doesn't even compare to the #AlexCross series of #AudioBooks I've listened to. I prefer to audiobooks overall. I found the movie a poor representation on the #JamesPatterson books. I would not recommend watching this.

Not recommended because Picasso or Matthew Fox is CRAZY!

First time I've seen Tyler Perry in film (at least I think it is) - based on this evidence I'm not sure he can even act, but then again if I hadn't seen Jean Reno in any other film I'd assume he couldn't either. So I'll just blame the director.

There isn't enough time to list the other reasons why this is so bad.

The only thing worse than the villain and his MO is the man behind the villain. That being said, this movie is terrible. I found myself absolutely not caring whether or not they caught anybody and I didn't care about the hero's family. I'd say that speaks pretty poorly about the film.

Save yourself some time, read the wiki entry and skip the movie.

One of the worst movies I've seen from 2012.