- 7
Spry, if a bit specious, and absolutely desperate to win you over, This Means War is a good start in the battle to rehabilitate the sagging will-they-or-won't-they entertainment ideal.
—Bill Gibron filmcritic.com
- 7
Part spy caper, part buddy picture, part romantic comedy, part raunchy-girl-talk sex farce...
—Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly
- 5
If you can get past the gross invasion of privacy issues that would exist if this were real life and not just a frothy confection, what you have is some bittersweet fun peppered by bursts of sharp patter, the best between the boys.
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
- 5
Silly action sequences grow tedious and rarely blend with the wannabe madcap comedy.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 5
...would be perfectly acceptable watched on the back of an airline seat or at home while you're doing housework.
—Manohla Dargis New York Times
- 5
...seems so concerned with being the best product, it doesn't even know how to be good trash.
—R. Kurt Oseland Slant Magazine
- 4
A trio of appealing actors is trapped in an action-spiked romcom death-sentenced by a lack of humor, heart and a coherent reason for being.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 4
If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 4
The cocky presumption of charm that isn't actually there is precisely the problem with action-comedy This Means War.
—Nick Pinkerton Village Voice
- 4
This screwball premise lives or dies by the chemistry between Pine and Hardy, who are too busy trying to out-appeal one another to make the buddy dynamic click.
—Peter Debruge Variety
- 3
Some movies nimbly match romance, violence. Not this one.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 2
...pouring on the douchey hipness and charm only makes things worse.
—Scott Tobias Onion AV Club
- 1
This perfectly dreadful romantic action comedy manages to embarrass its three eminently attractive leading players in every scene, making this an automatic candidate for whatever raspberries or golden turkeys or other dubious awards may be given in future for the films of 2012.
—Todd McCarthy Hollywood Reporter
- 0
Nearly totally laugh-, chemistry- and coherence-free, this fiasco from the director of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle' has a script whose sensible parts would fit on a napkin with enough room left over for the Gettysburg Address.
—Lou Lumenick New York Post