Well, this is certainly an odd pairing: Alex Cross — an adaptation of yet another James Patterson paperback smash hit, this one about a psychologist/cop facing off against a dastardly serial killer — features not one but two familiar faces playing against type. In this corner we have Tyler Perry, in a rare sighting outside the Tyler Perry Presents … universe. He's the quiet, loyal, uber-competent family man Alex Cross (it's the same guy Morgan Freeman played in Along Came a Spider), which would be a familiar role from Perry's more dramatic in-house fare, most recently February's Good Deeds — if it wasn't for the fact that Perry also has to jump in the air while shooting a gun, and run around sweaty yelling out orders at confused subordinates, and ominously whisper bonkers preposterous stuff like "I will meet his soul at the gates of hell before I let him take a person that I love."