Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher

Rating 8 out of 10

Jack Reacher is a main character in a series of novels written by Lee Child.  I have read many of Child's entertaining books although not the one this movie was based on.  Reacher is a tough as nails ex-military man that has done it all.  He retired from a lifetime in the military to travel around America.  No frills.  No phones, credit cards, not even a suitcase. As luck would have it everywhere he goes trouble seem to find him.

In the first in what I'm guessing will be a series of movies Jack shows up when a guy he convicted of murder in the military police but got off from a technicality is arrested for shooting five people in downtown Pittsburg with a sniper rifle.  He is there hoping the guy hangs yet as the evidence mounts he may have been set up.

When I first heard Tom Cruise was playing Jack Reacher I thought he was too short for the 6'4" military bad a$$. He does a good joband kicked buns plenty of times.  He works with a pretty defense attorney played by the lovely Rosamund Pike (when you see her picture you will have an ah-hah moment realizing who she is).

There probably could have been a little more action, but the action there is very good.  There is a cool car chase thru the city of Pittsburg.  I enjoyed the movie.