This Means War is a stupid film and commits the even greater mistake of assuming that we, too, are stupid, writes Shaikh Ayaz.This could possibly be the only Bollywood movie -- about two men in love with the same woman, or, to reverse it, one woman in love with two men -- that isn't made in Bollywood. But, the amorous dinners, online dating, dirty talk, undercover missions, German adversaries, cars exploding and a poetic justice situation slipped in clumsily at the end are as American as they come.
McG's This Means War degrades further the quality of breezy, typically happy-ending romantic comedies that Hollywood once excelled at. To keep the plot self-consciously thrilling, director McG (whose real name is Joseph McGinty Nichol, who made his big-screen debut with Charlie's Angels) takes recourse to a spy-at-work setting. Despite this, the film is more a who's-the-best-man contest between the paramours than about the two agents pursuing their agency's bête noire, a revenge-seeking criminal.
FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck Henson (Tom Hardy) occupy desks across each other at their high-tech CIA office. Tuck is separated from his wife Katie (Abigail Spencer) but visits his only son dutifully, attending his karate classes like a doting dad. When he meets the lonely, Klimt-loving executive Lauren Scott (Reese Witherspoon) through an online dating site, it's Fate.net, he finds instant comfort and they start going out.
FDR too meets Lauren --
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