Review: 'This Means War' Shoots Blanks As Both An Action Outing & A Goofy Rom-Com

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“The best product always wins,” declares Lauren (Reese Witherspoon) early on in McG’s "This Means War," brusquely establishing her approach to professional conduct – she’s a product tester in some candy-colored SoCal workplace – and romantic relationships alike. The sentiment also sets the bar much too high for the movie itself, as the action-comedy proceeds to deliver a sporadically amusing rivalry between two government agents for Lauren’s incredibly indecisive affections in between action sequences that reek of Fox’s notorious post-production meddling. The company men in question are Fdr (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy), totes BFFs who have the back of one another out in the field. However, thanks to the magic of online dating and numerous other contrivances, the former (a free-wheeling bachelor) and the latter (a divorced father of one) end up equally head over heels for this smokin’ hot heir apparent to fretful »

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