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This series thrives in its dimensionality, becoming more than a "good adaptation." After years of cinematic efforts to bring a beloved literary character to life, we can finally say "Cross" is killer.
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Tortured, brilliant hero with an almost supernatural ability to navigate a mental maze of clues and come out the other side with the answer? Check, check, and check. What sets Cross apart, though, is that Watson and his writers treat those tropes as a point of departure rather than home base.
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Opting for a new mystery welcomes fans and newbies alike to the world of Alex Cross in a successful adaptation that's left us feeling anything but cro… disappointed.
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Cross is a solid crime thriller made very watchable by Hodge’s performance as the title character.
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“Cross” is largely captivating, but there are a couple of flubs. .... Still, with Hodge at the center and Watkins at the helm, “Cross” is a crime drama boasting several astonishing curveballs.
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Alex Cross joins Prime Video’s growing legion of literary badasses in what’s easily the strongest and most faithful adaptation of James Patterson’s bestselling detective series to date.
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Created by Ben Watkins, the series is solidly made and stylistically straightforward but does suffer a bit from its split personality. .... But above all, Hodge and Mustafa are charismatic performers with an easy rapport that begs for a reteaming.
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For those looking for another action-crime series to stream while waiting for new seasons of Reacher and The Night Agent, Cross will surely do the trick.
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Elements of Amazon Prime Video’s “Cross” make it stand out, but those positive attributes often get canceled out by predictable, unseemly scenes of violence against women.
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Prime’s eight-episode thriller from creator Ben Winter takes a creepy premise and makes it violent and watchable, even if the plot does doughnuts around logic. What saves it is that Hodge and Winters allow novelist James Patterson’s well-known character to be more of an anguished soul than the actors who previously portrayed him.