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Cross… Alex Cross… yet, it can’t be called the latter as that was the name of the 2012 Tyler Perry movie, which no-one went to see.
Then again, there’s nothing worth watching in any of Perry’s output.
Taking on the mantle this time, is Aldis Hodge (Black Adam). However, while he’s out and about with wife Janelle (Melody Hurd), she heads off to use the loo, but a random gunshot rings out, and it doesn’t take an Einstein to work out who copped for it.
Don’t worry, that’s the premise, not a spoiler. It literally happens right at the start, so there’s no way of getting around it.
One year later, cops are interviewing a man suspected of killing his wife. Alex is a smart-arse who points out that the man has inadvertently confessed without realising, but this is a typical starter to a series to just introduce that this is a main character with a no-nonsense attitude, as well as often being obsessed with pointing out that he’s black. Yes, we know. We can see you.
Okay, you’re angry, we get it. I am, too, since BBC’s Doctors is about to end for good. We’ve all got problems. I’m still hoping Amazon Freevee take it over, as they did with Neighbours, but we shall see. Oh, and I’m still upset about Eldorado being cancelled after one year.
At least it doesn’t take too long until we get to the main point of the drama where a bloke I’ll call Creepy McWeirdface catfishes a particular woman, and he’s obviously the kind of clown that anyone would run from, but for plot purposes, she gives him a chance, and you know it’s going to go tits up before too long.
Plus, after a typical drama cliché of a bad guy hiding in a closet, they don’t stop there, since it’s another typical drama with the old-style cliché where the protagonist asks a friend to look up information for his case, and if the other person was audited for looking up information which didn’t relate to their OWN job, they could get fired. That’s also something they’d have been warned againast doing when they signed up for the job in the first place, but hey, they’ll do it without question, here!
Similarly, there’s a string of other clichés I won’t reveal here – and on a road we’ve been down far too many times, as they would be spoilers, but really, is this the best they could do?!
At least I haven’t got too cross while watching this, since I only made it to two of the ten episodes, and it’s ridiculously slow drama that could’ve halved the number of episodes. Yes, mate, they fridged your wife, and you don’t know who did it. We get it. Move on, now.
Thanks to our friends at Prime Video for the screener prior to release.
Trailer posted November 10th 2024, 01:00
Review posted: November 13th 2024, 17:00
Cross is on Prime Video from Thursday November 14th. All episodes are available from day one.
Cert: 
Running time: 50-60 minutes per episode (10 episodes)
Release date: November 14th 2024
Studio: Prime Video
Format: 2.39:1
Series Directors: Stacey Muhammad, Craig Siebels, Nzingha Stewart
Producers: Chris Agoston, Aldis Hodge
Characters: James Patterson
Creator: Ben Watkins
Writers: Blaize Ali-Watkins, Ron McCants, Sonja Perryman, Ben Watkins, Jim Dunn, Sam Ernst, Aiyana White
Music: Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Adrian Younge
Cast:
Alex Cross: Aldis Hodge
John Sampson: Isaiah Mustafa
Chief Anderson: Jennifer Wigmore
Shannon Whitmer: Eloise Mumford
Ed Ramsey: Ryan Eggold
Shawna De Lackner: Stacie Greenwell
Regina ‘Nana Mama’ Cross: Juanita Jennings
Kayla Craig: Alona Tal
Elle Monteiro: Samantha Walkes
Janelle Cross: Melody Hurd
Bobby Trey: Johnny Ray Gill
Oracene Massey: Sharon Taylor
Amielynn Vega: Mercedes de la Zerda
Damon Cross: Caleb Elijah
Akbar: Dwain Murphy
Miss Nancy: Karen Robinson
Chris Wu: Jason Rogel
Tania Hightower: Siobhan Murphy
Maria Cross: Chaunteé Schuler Irving
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