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Story
Series adaptation of James Patterson’s novels about the complicated and brilliant detective Alex Cross
Hodge is the third actor to play Cross, following Morgan Freeman, who first played him on screen in the 1997 film Kiss the Girls and again in the 2001 sequel Along Came a Spider; and Tyler Perry as the title character in the 2012 film Alex Cross, which was a box office flop and led Lionsgate to cancel the planned sequel Double Cross. When I was a truck driver, I ate up a lot of highway listening to James Patterson’s Alix Cross, but I don’t remember the story or stories it was based on.
That Detective Cross seemed different than I remembered
In fact, I think I was in his years working with the feds instead of the city police department. However.
This series had one major flaw for me
They seemed to be tying together too many stories. It was sometimes disconcerting to see the connections.
Others here have commented on how Morgan Freeman’s interpretation of Cross was different
On top of that, the main villain was almost a supervillain because of how well-positioned he was to get to anyone at any time. I agree, and I too would like to see this Cross act more intelligently most of the time instead of just intermittently.
