Two of the world's top secret agents are best friends who never let anything come between them - until they inadvertently fall for the same woman.
This Means War starts slowly with some background and character scenes showing the two leads Tuck (Tom Hardy) and Franklin (Chris Pine) as friends working together as agents for the CIA and the female lead Lauren working as a product tester, it's a bit pedestrian but the action ramps up as the second act kicks in and the two guys start to date her at the same time competitively against one another using all their romantic skills to seduce Lauren (Reese Witherspoon) whilst using their high tech surveillance skills to track each other's progress.
At some points the film feels as though it might possibly slip into mediocrity but it's the trio of talented and likeable actors that raises it above other similar films. Will Lauren choose Franklin the slick, womanising American or Tuck the lovelorn, more romantic Brit?
The direction is solid and slick apart from the opening scenes which lag a little more than you would expect but overall the film had enough action and laughs to provide enjoyment and a decent form of distraction for viewers without ever perhaps being a smash hit. It's consistently good without ever really being great perhaps missing out on extra kudos by just being slightly too predictable.
This Means War is a lot more credible than you might at first imagine or expect from this sort of film and despite the unlikely premise the film flows well and the dialogue and interactions feel reasonably organic and mostly realistic.
And opposed to the usual plot device of not allowing men who are competing for the affections of the same woman to know the truth of their situation until the final act, here the leads find out the truth from the start which has a positive effect on the film as a whole, as the final outcome feels much more believable and honest as a consequence.
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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray and will require either a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play STAR TREK&39;S Chris Pine and Tom Hardy (BRONSON) portray two spies whose close friendship is torn when an alluring female (Reese Witherspoon) comes between them in this 20th Century Fox comedy McG directs from a script by Timothy Dowling
Action comedy starring Chris Pine, Tom Hardy and Reese Witherspoon. Two of the world's most skilled CIA operatives (Pine and Hardy) - who also happen to be best friends - fall out spectacularly when it emerges that they are both dating the same woman, Lauren (Witherspoon). The two men now put their considerable technical skills and arsenal of super-advanced spy gadgetry to use as they go all-out to bring each other down and win the battle for the blonde.
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