Numbers-Don’t-Lie: Tyler Perry’s ‘Alex Cross’ Flops At Box Office, Numbers Disappoint
Tyler Perry’s role as a crime saver in the ‘Alex Cross’, didn’t do so well over the weekend, at the box office. The numbers are in and the Summit Entertainment film starring Perry as author James Patterson’s brilliant criminal profiler, was a dud, opening at No. 5 with $11.8 million. Critics suggest that fans prefer him playing the popular character ‘Madea’, which mostly have had opening weekends two and three times bigger than that of “Alex Cross.”
Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com, explains:
“He’s become so identified and so successful with the Madea franchise that when he steps outside of that, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the audience is going along with him. It’s fun for him to stretch out a little bit, but it didn’t really pay off.”
On Sunday, Tyler addressed fans and naysayers on his personal web site, in a post titled ‘Thank You For Allowing Me to Gro’, writing:
Thank You For Allowing Me To Grow. To all of you who went to see Alex Cross this weekend, I just want to say thank you for allowing me to grow. Thank you for letting me stretch my wings a bit. I knew you would enjoy it. Your messages on my board make me feel so good, and thank you for giving the movie an A. Can’t do this without you.
[AP, TylerPerry.com] If you saw ‘Alex Cross’, what do you think of Tyler’s role–impressive or a flop? And should he stick to comical movie’s like ‘Madea’, or continue to try and expand his acting wings?
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The movie was realllly GOOD folks should go and see it… stop hatin all the dag on time
I agree! The movie was good! I don’t care what the numbers say. Those numbers don’t reflect how much talent he has and how great of an actor he is. If people didn’t go see it then oh well, they missed a good movie. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t good.
This movie was AMAZING!!! Tyler Perry totally kicked butt in this role, as did the cast members, ED Burns, Matthew Fox(plays crazy really, really well). I loved the special effects and nod to the auto industry.
This is a must see movie!!!
I just don’t think ppl can take him serious in a movie like this b/c of his previous roles
Excellent movie!
The movie was just awful and I have to ask the people that said the movie was good, are we talking about Alex Cross?
I agree Rick. The movie was not good at all. I love James Patterson boosk and I love the character of Alex Cross. But this movie was so not good in my opinon. Nothing to do with Tyler Perry – it was just a poorly excuted movie – the plot the ending . . . huge disappointment.
Damn That’s f%ck up he’s forever doomed to be typed cased but at least it was in the top five and not somewhere in the top 10 or worse
The movie was not good . I am not sure if it was the story line. But like the previous comment. Some of the people do not know Alex
Cross. If you have seen other James Patterson movies then you know what he is about.
Now, I’m conflicted…I feel like we should give him a fair chance, but we keep picturing him in a ‘moo-moo’.
I haven’t seen the movie. Not because of Tyler Perry, just not my type of movie. So, I cannot comment on his acting in the movie. Some people don’t know how to think outside the box, so they will never venture or have an open mind to something different. This was not his movie that he wrote the script and directed. He was asked to play the part. So what about the numbers. Look at how many black actors play in movies and they don’t get supported either. Their movies don’t even make the top anything or go straight to dvd. How many people went to see “SAFEHOUSE” with Denzel Washington? Enough said.
I saw Safehouse and it was pretty good.
Anyhow, Tyler Perry has be typcasted…and that is okay. I don’t believe that there is anything wrong with typcasting. It just happens. Some roles are so strong that people can only see you in that role. He did it to himself.
I will not watch Alex Cross because I do read James Patterson novels and I refuse to let Hollywood distort my image of that character.
The problem is no one knows who he is. The same people who go to see his comedies went to this movie, and it sounds like only 1/3 of them showed. If Denzel or Snipes or any of the other many many awesome African American macho action stars had appeared as the lead in the trailer then there would have been lines at the box office! First and foremost the actor who plays a role has to look the part!
ithought the movie was really good. i think tyler should do more serious roles.he was really good.all u haters, give him a chance. i will watch him in whatever he makes
I haven’t seen any of the Madea movies, so I don’t have a previous image of Perry. For me, he fits the image of Alex Cross I got from the books, but the movie was very much lacking in depth of character and way too flashy. Not to mention the fact that it was placed inn Boston, not D.C. and that they replaced the big, bad Sampson with creamy, white Burns. Perry could have been a very good Cross, but the writing and directing were very bad.