A
woman comes between two men who admittedly love each other. No it is
not a gay film as the two guys are CIA partners who would take a bullet
for each other but not for any woman they know, that is until they meet
Lauren, played by Reese Witherspoon, and then both are willing to kill each other for her, using a lot of CIA tricks against each other.

Sadly
for a romantic comedy there is very little, if any romance, and only
one 'bit' that was funny. There is no chemistry between the agents
played by Tom Hardy and Chris Pine nor between either of them and Witherspoon. None of the three will put this on their resume nor should they.

Angela Bassett is completely wasted in her role as the CIA boss while Chelsea Handler,
as Lauren's friend, provides one quick laugh using a four letter
expletive and Rosemary Harris as Pine's nana brings a warmth that is wasted in this film.

The failure of "This Means War" is right on the shoulders of the director McG and the screenplay writing team of Timothy Dowling and Simon Kinberg based on whatever story there is by Dowling and Marcus Gautesen but mainly McG. There are too many meaningless fade to black sets, not to forget to mention action movie sequences, negating the romatic comedy this movie is suppose to be.

This is probably the first time you will read this by me--skip this one folks!