I’ve been writing about video games, television and movies for Forbes for over 10 years, and you may have seen my reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. I cover all manner of console and PC games, but if it’s about looting or shooting, I’m definitely there. If I’m watching something, it’s usually science fiction, horror or superheroic.
Amazon Prime Video sure has snapped up the rights to a lot of good book source material, and it turns out this entire time they’ve had an Alex Cross series in the works, the prolific hero written by James Patterson across 32 books now, and counting. Here, it’s just called “
While detective Alex Cross has been played in movies twice by Morgan Freeman and once by Tyler Perry, now it’s Aldis Hodge taking up the mantle. He’s a SAG-winning actor who was recently one of the only good parts of DC’s Black Adam playing Hawkeye. Now, he’s got this high profile part. Cross dropped all eight episodes of its first season this past week, and has been planted as the #1 series on the service since then, unseating lingering viewings of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. It’s very clear that Amazon is attempting to create another Reacher-type success on the service, an adaptation of a big, crime-solving hero from popular novels that have essentially unlimited source material to draw on.Is Cross actually good? It’s decent, it seems.
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