I went into Jack Reacher with very low expectations as the trailer made it look like a really bad Dirty Harry rip off, were those expectations correct?
Well, frankly they were as this was not a very good film at all and it was one that I found extremely boring to sit through, Cruise fights like a younger man with nothing held back and its admirable but mistaken as he is severely miscast in the role, this part needed a tough Clint Eastwood type and Cruise doesn't give that off, the storyline involving the sniper is also extremely boring and feels like a bad knockoff of the original Dirty Harry film.
Which now leads me to my next point, the villains in this movie are just pathetic and are either complete bores with no real presence or sense of a threat or they're just stunt casting which is the case with veteran director Werner Herzog, yes he speaks with a thick German accent but again its miscast, the part needed someone like Stellan Skarsgard who can be menacing and has done well with villain roles in the past but of no doubt he was unavailable so they went with Herzog instead, did we not learn anything from the Dirty Harry sequels which had no name villains of their own?
Did we?
(Silence)
Why am I not surprised.
My other major problem with this film is that it's just too long, it goes for 130 minutes and I wish someone had said to writer/director Chris McQuarrie "90 minutes Chris, 90 minutes just like the first Dirty Harry film" and lastly there is the great waste of Rosamund Pike, an underrated actress that does pull of a convincing American accent but in the end does nothing instead of sitting in a chair, answering a phone and playing the role of Beryl Exposition, such a sad waste of a great actress.
So all in all, Jack Reacher is not a very good movie and lacks the edge that made the first Dirty Harry film a classic, avoid it if you can, 1 out of 5.
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