History Film / AlexCross

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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Admit it, Alex Cross sounds like a great name.
* CharacterTitle
* ChekhovsGunman: That teenage female prisoner convicted of murder (which she didn't commit) that Alex talks to at the beginning. [[spoiler: Alex visits her father and offers the two guns of evidence he and Tommy stole that could prove her guilty in return for a name of a chemist that would be able to supply the drug Picasso uses to torture people with.]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: The Police Chief, several cops and fake Mercier are killed unceremoniously by Picasso when he blows the building they're next to with a bazooka from a moving train.]]

* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler: Monica Ashe, Alex and Tommy's partner in the case who Tommy was dating, got tortured and killed by Picasso. But it's only mentioned once briefly after her death.]]

* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't see most of the graphic violence, just it's aftermath. An example is earlier in the film: one of Picasso's victims, Fan Yau, is paralyzed and later we're shown her dead body with missing fingers.
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Despite the death of [[spoiler: her mother]], Alex's daughter comes out unharmed.

* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Picasso's employer was Mercier himself. Having embezzled money from his clients, Mercier asked for Yau and Nunemarcher's help to fake his death and flee to Bali, and then hired Picasso to eliminate Yau, Nunemarcher and a double pretending to be himself to tie loose ends. His assistant, however, sold him out to Alex for immunity.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Once Picasso [[spoiler: kills Cross' wife]], all bets are off.
* WrongGenreSavvy: After stopping Picasso from killing someone during the second act, Alex believes that he will not come after him or his team on the assumption that his goal is clear and concise and he wouldn't bother going after them. However, he does indeed go after them [[spoiler: torturing one of his partners to death and later killing his pregnant wife.]]

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler:Monica and Maria]] pretty much exist just so their death's make it personal.

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->''Don't cross Alex Cross.''
-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''

''Alex Cross'' is a 2012 crime-thriller directed by Creator/RobCohen (Film/DragonHeart, Film/TheFastAndTheFurious, Film/{{Stealth}}) based upon the ''Literature/AlexCross'' series by Creator/JamesPatterson. Starring Creator/TylerPerry, Creator/MatthewFox, Creator/EdwardBurns, Creator/RachelNichols and Creator/JeanReno.

!The film includes the following tropes:

* InfantImmortality: Despite the death of [[spoiler: her mother]], Alex's daughter comes out unharmed.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This film is surprisingly graphic in spite of it's PG-13 rating, the severed finger scene most notably.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler: Monica Ashe, Alex and Tommy's partner in the case who Tommy was dating, got tortured and killed by Picasso. But is only mentioned once briefly after her death.]]

* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't see most of the graphic violence, just it's aftermath. An example is earlier in the film, one of Picasso's victims, Fan Yau, is paralyzed and, later, we're shown her dead body with missing fingers.
* InfantImmortality: Despite the death of [spoiler: her mother]], Alex's daughter comes out unharmed.

* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't see most of the graphic violence, just it's aftermath. An example is earlier in the film, one of Picasso's is paralyzed and, later, we're shown her dead body with missing fingers.
* InfantImmortality: Despite the death of [spoiler: their mother]], Alex's kids come out unharmed.