The trailer promotes the film as a comedy/action for the male audience, but in fact it turns out to be more of a rom-com with just as much Witherspoon screen time as the guys have and only a hint of action. By going in two opposite directions at once, it becomes the "perfect" comprise for a couple's movie choice. There a little in there for both the guy and the girl... but no one will truly like it. And oh, obviously the wrong guy gets the girl *tsk-tsk*

Considering it is a romantic comedy, it exceeded my expectations. It had some good laughs, Tom Hardy and Chris Pine have great on screen chemistry. Good for at least a one time watch!

Meaningless fodder.

LOVED IT :))))

The undeniably talented actors are wasted in this movie with an inherently cliched premise and uninspired dialogue.

ger; [Das gibt Ärger; This means war]; zwei spione verlieben sich in dieselbe frau und kämpfen nun mit allen mitteln.;

That this is McG's best film to date says infinitely more about the rest of his filmography than about this film. The little enjoyment derivable from this is from the occasional chemistry between the leads (mostly Hardy/Pine, Witherspoon is flat as usual) and the slight coolness it manages to muster up in its action sequence payoff. Terrible story, way too slick execution, ridiculously named director. Hey Hollywood, stop giving work to someone who goes by the name "McG" professionally.

i recommend watching this with a bottle of australian cabernet because you focus more on the wine than anything else

A pinnacle of modern film-making; intelligent and thought-provoking; it raises many questions but answers none: Why is there a British guy working for the CIA? Why are they in LA? How could anyone possibly find Reese Witherspoon that attractive? Could a plot be anymore predictable? How much more drab could you possibly make a main character? If the Secret Service is really this inept and inefficient, is it really any wonder that 9/11 was allowed to occur?

Two best friends spy/stalk a woman while constantly lying about who they are. Naturally she falls in love with both of them. It's the most romantic story ever told.

It is very hard not to ignore the idiotic premise, which has been told a trillion times before. But as long as you do not take it for more than it is, it's 90 minutes of decent action/comedy entertainment. Hardy and Pine has a great bromance chemistry between them and it is nice to see that there are some hopes for up and coming leading men in Hollywood.

Another helping of inane Hollywood crap, boasting a particularly awful script and a weak performance from Reese Witherspoon, which makes the premise (two spies battling viciously over her) fairly hard to swallow. Tom Hardy is always good, and he and Chris Pine have some solid byplay, but Pine's character is such a bastard, the film wastes Til Schweiger and Angela Bassett so totally, and Chelsea Handler is so damned annoying, that it's a chore to sit through (and why the anti-British sentiment?).

Of all the pitiful elements of this move, I don't know which was worse, the writing or the direction. It was like they shot it in 3 days. It had a couple of sparks but not enough to warrant paying to see it. The paintball scene was probably the best, but not the groin shot they used in the preview meant to appeal to the best American Home Videos audiences, I guess.

While the plot is cheesy, character developement is almost non-existent, its dialogue are packed full with entertainment and humour. A film to watch just for fun, but not much for anything else.

really funny 10 out of 10

Abominable and ridiculous.

So fun to watch while talking about other stuff.

McG's gets clumsier as his procedures as a poor director, delivering a phony bromance and a heavy-handed comedy, reveal how this one is a shame of a film -- actually his worst. Basically, he can't direct a romantic triangle that demands some subtlety -- the lines are said and edited as if he were shooting a car chase -- or a lighter touch with the actors he's working with. McG brutalizes every material he touches. He's like the Stephen Daldry of action films. He's just really bad.

What ought to have been stupid fun turns out, stupidly, to be not much fun at all. Here's why: There's too little Hardy-Pine banter and too much Witherspoon dancing and eyerolling. And way too much of her "funny" girlfriend. An unlikeable mess.

Amiable enough, but joke-wise, the misfires outnumber the hits.

A subpar buddy-cop flick, that finds McG back in his 'Charlie’s Angels' world of the overly stylish, beautiful and stupid. The script, obviously written by 13-year olds, is particularly awful: Witherspoon's friend who’s like 'Sex, sex, but family values', Hardy who's all 'family values' and Kirk who's 'Fun, bromance, sex, aww fuckit family values'. It could've worked (and actually does in one brilliant scene featuring paintball guns and children), if it had stuck to spy vs. spy fun. But no.

Pretty much what I expected from the vowel-less director - As long as he's in douchy-bromance territory the good/bad jokes ratio is bearable, but anything involving Witherspoon's "rejected Sex & City fan-script in a blond wig" is gutwrenchingly bad... Still: The paintball-scene makes up for some.