This Means War (With Digital Copy)

This is a great feel good movie all round, the story is simple but plays out really well with plenty of action and plenty of laughs!! The cast is really good Pine and Hardy are both brilliant and make a good team and Reese Witherspoon is totally worth fighting over as she has never looked so HOT she is some serious eye candy!! I think everyone can walk away from this with a smile on their face, great paced action comedy dont miss it.

A very good actioner, and great acting. And very unpredictable who she was going to pick. My one downside about the DVD release is 2 out of the 3 alternate endings. 2 are only about a minute long, which would of made the ending very pathetic if these were used, my favourite alternate was the warehouse ending. Buti think they chose the right ending for this perfect movie. Other than that an hour and a half has never flown by so much in my life. Very good action, rom-com indeed, and the reviews prove it.

If you have watched Mr and Mrs Smith and enjoyed it then this romantic/action/comedy film will be right up your street. This is more a lads version of the fore mentioned film, rather than a chick flick, but females will enjoy it as well for the male leads. One of the best films that I have seen in 2011, and I hope that they try and do a follow up to this movie, but in some respect's I do not think that would work, as this is a one of gem of a film.

There can't be many who welcomed the news of McG returning to his roots to make a spy based action comedy after two Charlie's Angels movies, although the prospect of Chris Pine and Tom Hardy as the Y chromosome's answer to Charlie's Angels might've pricked up a few female ears. For the first twenty minutes things start off on a less than promising with a clumsily shot gun toting action set piece atop a Hong Kong skyscraper, punctuated by lame one liners and bursts of sub AC/DC hard guitar. The sight of Pine and Hardy rocking sharp suits aside, you sense you're in for a long 97 minutes ( although the Blu Ray contains both the cinema cut or the superior 104 minute extended cut )
It's a relief, then, to discover that the opener is pure red herring. Their rooftop bothering antics deemed too attention grabbing, our boys end up relegated to desk jobs at their CIA base, with nothing better to think about than their desultory love lives. Enter Reese Witherspoon's unlucky in love Lauren whom, thanks to a convoluted web dating subplot, the BFFs inadvertently both begin dating. Despite what the title would have you believe, this doesn't actually mean war so much as an onslaught of mild, very enjoyable bromantic bickering, as Pine and Hardy make an uneasy gentleman's pact, and proceed to compare notes on dates, engage in surveillance based one upmanship, and make passive aggressive swipes at one another's manhood. Given scripter Simon Kinberg's previous scribing gig on Sherlock Holmes, it's not surprising how much pleasure lies in the central co dependent friendship although as with Holmes, it's not so much the writing as the easy comedic chemistry between the leads that sells it. Pine and Hardy both seem to be having so much fun in their loose, improv inflected scenes that it's impossible not to have some yourself. As compelling as the bromance is, the womance gets a decent look in too Witherspoon's got comedic skills to spare but here she's largely playing the straight woman to US TV star Chelsea Handler, a surprise highlight as Lauren's pragmatic, zinger laden best friend. For all that this is plainly a rom brom com, there are some concessions to the action caper it once appeared to be the CIA base looks more like a leftover bit of JJ Abrams' Enterprise set than a government building, while the ending dovetails swiftly into a bookending action blow out and an overly neat triangle resolution.
Director McG apparently filmed multiple endings, and I can't help thinking there must have been a more inspiring one than this in the mix.
In all this is a very entertaining action comedy that will not bother the likes of Bond, Bourne or Ethan Hunt, But watching really charismatic people be really funny seldom gets old, and they're served reasonably well by a tight, disciplined, funny script that capitalises on their game charms.
See if you like....
Mr and Mrs Smith.
True Lies.
Spies Like Us.

There can't be many who welcomed the news of McG returning to his roots to make a spy based action comedy after two Charlie's Angels movies, although the prospect of Chris Pine and Tom Hardy as the Y chromosome's answer to Charlie's Angels might've pricked up a few female ears. For the first twenty minutes things start off on a less than promising with a clumsily shot gun toting action set piece atop a Hong Kong skyscraper, punctuated by lame one liners and bursts of sub AC/DC hard guitar. The sight of Pine and Hardy rocking sharp suits aside, you sense you're in for a long 97 minutes ( although the Blu Ray contains both the cinema cut or the superior 104 minute extended cut )
It's a relief, then, to discover that the opener is pure red herring. Their rooftop bothering antics deemed too attention grabbing, our boys end up relegated to desk jobs at their CIA base, with nothing better to think about than their desultory love lives. Enter Reese Witherspoon's unlucky in love Lauren whom, thanks to a convoluted web dating subplot, the BFFs inadvertently both begin dating. Despite what the title would have you believe, this doesn't actually mean war so much as an onslaught of mild, very enjoyable bromantic bickering, as Pine and Hardy make an uneasy gentleman's pact, and proceed to compare notes on dates, engage in surveillance based one upmanship, and make passive aggressive swipes at one another's manhood. Given scripter Simon Kinberg's previous scribing gig on Sherlock Holmes, it's not surprising how much pleasure lies in the central co dependent friendship although as with Holmes, it's not so much the writing as the easy comedic chemistry between the leads that sells it. Pine and Hardy both seem to be having so much fun in their loose, improv inflected scenes that it's impossible not to have some yourself. As compelling as the bromance is, the womance gets a decent look in too Witherspoon's got comedic skills to spare but here she's largely playing the straight woman to US TV star Chelsea Handler, a surprise highlight as Lauren's pragmatic, zinger laden best friend. For all that this is plainly a rom brom com, there are some concessions to the action caper it once appeared to be the CIA base looks more like a leftover bit of JJ Abrams' Enterprise set than a government building, while the ending dovetails swiftly into a bookending action blow out and an overly neat triangle resolution.
Director McG apparently filmed multiple endings, and I can't help thinking there must have been a more inspiring one than this in the mix.
In all this is a very entertaining action comedy that will not bother the likes of Bond, Bourne or Ethan Hunt, But watching really charismatic people be really funny seldom gets old, and they're served reasonably well by a tight, disciplined, funny script that capitalises on their game charms.
See if you like....
Mr and Mrs Smith.
True Lies.
Spies Like Us.