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Series adaptation of James Patterson novels about the complicated and brilliant detective, Alex Cross
Hodge is the third actor to portray Cross, following in the footsteps of Morgan Freeman, who first played him onscreen in 1997's Kiss the Girls and again in the 2001 movie sequel Along Came a Spider; and Tyler Perry as the titular character in 2012's Alex Cross, which bombed at the box office and led Lionsgate to scrap the preplanned sequel Double Cross..
We liked Cross enough to watch all eight episodes in two sittings
My wife would give an 8; I was a 7 (and I'm the one writing the review!)Aldis Hodge is compelling with great expressive eyes.
But the story telling and the resolution were disappointingly ordinary
(I might add that you can't help but note that every episode has a different writer(s) and director.
Cross suffers a bit from the "How will we fill up 8 hours?" problem, as well as occasionally "jumping the shark" in some of the outrageous things that happenI'd love to see Alex Cross solve some conventional murders, and, in particular, not murderers who have a connection to Alex Cross
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That was especially disappointing about the end of this series, which suggests that a second series (if there is one) may bear similarities to the first..