Jack Reacher

On a mundane morning in an average town, five people are randomly shot dead while going about their everyday lives. All of the evidence points to one man: A sharp-shooting assassin who also is ex-military, a trained sniper. He is swiftly apprehended and dragged into custody. This is how the movie get started and drag the audiences into the rest of the hundred over minutes marathon interrogation to find out who was behind the entire crime together with the almost unbeatable Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise).

 The film is based on based on one of the bestselling novelist/author Lee Child's novel series < One Shot> aka "A Perfect Killer" with complex, detailed set pieces and characters whose loyalties and motivations are suspect at best. Everything was planned for a reason, either for a reason to fight back or for vengeance. The plots was incredibly rich and well carried out with all suspect were in place and to wait for their appearances. Robert Duvall supporting role brought a few lightness to the film and diminish the intensity of the development. German film director/actor Werner Herzog who played the creepy villain was one of the highlight of this suspense thriller as well as Richard Jenkins for one of the suspect as the district attorney.

 All and all, You can see why Cruise wanted the role for Jack Reacher as he is the epitome of cool, a  highly decorated ex-soldier and also hard as nails and hyper-intelligent despite most complaints about Cruise taking the role stem from the physical difference between him and the books’ description of Reacher. The character is 6ft 5in, while Cruise is 5ft 7in. Oh well, Cruise was one of the producers, he won't say no to that for sure.