Got dragged to see, against my better judgement,
Jack Reacher last night. The reason I was reluctant to see the film was because I have read the books. In the books they describe Jack as......and I quote the vital statistics from the book here....6 foot 5 inches tall, 220-250 lbs and with dirty blond hair, so obviously this screams
Tom Cruise to everyone.
So with this in mind and bugging me from the very first trailer, I gave it a shot and it was ok, nothing more, nothing less just ok. The thing that bugged me the most about the film was surprisingly not the difference between the film's Reacher and the novels Reacher but there was too much emotion involved, in the book Reacher never seemed to be that kind of guy.
Throughout the movie, I couldn't help but think that this would have worked as another Mission Impossible or a different movie under different characters, but it just didn't seem to work for me.
If you have read the books then you probably want to give it a wide berth. However if you haven't then on it's own it's your run of the mill, tick the boxes action flick which you can tune out for a few hours.
6/10