This Means War

Released: 2012
Comedy, Romance
Director: McG
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy
Running Time: 97 minutes
Rated: PG-13

The breakdown: Two CIA agents that are also friends begin fighting each other after they start dating the same woman.


Ok so this looked like a terrible movie and it got terrible reviews, but it had Tom Hardy in it and I wanted to see him, so I watched it in pieces over the course of 3 days.

It wasn't as terrible as I thought, but of course, it wasn't great either.  Here's the plot:

Two CIA partners that have been friends for a long time get some down time off their job after they screw up.  Tom Hardy decides to join an online dating website to find a girl.  Chris Pine gives him flack and says it's a bad idea.  Hardy finds a girl and meets her at the local pub, they hit it off and then she leaves to go rent a movie for the night.  Pine was in the area, offering help to Hardy if he needed to bail out on the date, but instead meets the same girl while he's in the movie rental area.
When the boys return to work, they both start talking about the girl and show each other a picture of her, when they realize it's the same one, they both want to back off to honor their friendship, but then decide to let the woman decide.  After they lay down some ground rules, they both go on dates with her, and it's all out war after that since they both decide they really like her.

The premise is completely unrealistic (as most romcom's are) but parts at least, were funny, and Hardy looks particularly handsome, so he made it worth it.

It was ok.  I will neither recommend it, nor tell you to completely avoid it.  If you like romcom's, you'll probably  like this.  If you like action, you will probably not like this.

2 out of 5 for some laughs.  Witherspoon plays herself again, the same boring character as most of her movies, so if you like that, there you go.