George Snell / 14 February 2013 / Categories: Movie and TV Shows, Movie

Jack Reacher

I know I’m a little late to this, but I want to give me take on this movie. This movie is REALLY AWESOME!!!!!!!! Though not being perfect, this movie has a really interesting and engaging story especially sold with the character Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise, a major badass of the a character that can beat any bodies arse and making smart ass remarks/wise cracks/taunts to his opponents, who is massive joy to watch and a character men want/wish to be like. Though other actors a good in this film Tom Cruise is the one that makes this movie a real joy to watch. For the record I’m not a Tom Cruise fan boy, I just really love this character, kind of a more serious/less insane Deadpool & a more poor man version of James Bond, he is that type of Hero/action asshole character that we’d love to watch on screen.

The story

I like this story, though not something completely new, I like how it is a really good mixture of an Action Thriller, as the action scenes and story are smoothly written together, never going to too much action and remembering it had a plot or too much plot and not enough action. As this movie had a really good smart story and really good action scenes, especially a great car chase. So this story has been written very well to not make the two elements overshadow one another and slowing down on the story after the action scenes to give people a breather and to understand what is going on in the plot. I especially love how there is a mystery surrounding the main character and the villain, though only knowing a bit about them, making them more interesting as also the situation. Though an only hiccup in the story is that some, “SOME”, character motivation either don’t make much sense or are a little rushed, I won’t spoil it as you’ll know when you see, and at times the movie attempts comedy it is alright but at times it’s a little off putting, like if the Avengers battle scene had a random guy throw a pie at the aliens, but it’s not that big of a problem on the film.

Actors Performance

Tom Cruise giving of an amazing performance that makes the character enjoyable to watch, the other actors do a pretty good job and the villain, The Zec, being a meh…As at times Werner Herzog sounded bored and other times plays it as on old bond villain, over the top & not in a fun way, where you can’t take him seriously or find him any fun to watch, which is quite a shame as he did have an interesting backstory and again having an interesting mystery about him.

Cinematography

The cinematography is really well done here, showing off all of Pittsburgh, and the movie has really good shots in action scenes, especially at the car chase scene.

Soundtrack

The sound track is alright, does set the mood of certain scenes, especially on the opening scene of the movie with the sniper shooting at people, it was so powerful you felt the gun shots. But outside from the opening it’s pretty forgettable, though still setting the mood, nothing I’d put on my I-Pod, nothing like the Noland’s Batman, Danny Elfman’s work nor the Terminator’s soundtrack. The music to me felt generic action movie music, I felt like I’ve heard it before, though as I keep saying, does set the mood of the scene. I repeat it so I don’t get yelled at me for not liking the soundtrack that much.

Now a thing I keep hearing about is that Tom Cruise is too short to play the character and he wouldn’t be that threatening, that is absolute bull s**t as after watching that I’d sure wouldn’t want to get him on his bad side, & he played a lot of action roles before, as looking on his IMDB page as I’ve only seen M.I 4 and thought that was really good, so people shouldn’t really jump to conclusions now because he isn’t the right height. It’s like what the director said “With another actor you might get 100% of the height but only 90% of Reacher. With Tom, you'll get 100% of Reacher with 90% of the height." And Tom Cruise certainly gives 100% in this performance. And after watching this movie it made me want to watch more Tom Cruise movies.

I’ve also never read the books, so I came in judging the movie without reading the source material. After watching this film I might give them a read, though when I read the book I’m not going to imagine a 6’5” height guy, I’m going to see Tom Cruise in the role, because he fits the role so perfectly.

Over all this is an awesome movie with flaws, but I really enjoyed this & it is a definite “Like”, I defiantly recommend people to watch this movie.