Jack Reacher

[MacGuffin]

Release date: December 21, 2012

Starring: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Robert Duvall, Richard Jenkins

Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie

Premise: A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.

[polkablues]

I love how the first half of the trailer is setting the character up as this incredible, legendary badass, and then halfway through, BOOM, Tom Cruise's little Keebler elf voice.

[MacGuffin]

New Trailer

[pete]

Werner Herzog is in this.
This looks like another one of those movies, but it looks good too. It's weird that Tom Cruise has been producing some of the most memorable action sequences in the last ten years. Those things are usually fussy and, hacky or not, he seems to be one of the few who are really dedicated to committing and executing them properly.

[matt35mm]

This movie is straight out of the mid-90s. It's goofy, the dialogue isn't good but it's sometimes funny. Nothing makes sense and nothing really matters except the action scenes. Everything that happens is clumsily tipped beforehand, so it's ineffective as suspense, and when things do happen, everything's explained to the audience.

It's a pretty stupid movie, but I had a good time watching it because I just pretended that I was watching a movie made in 1996 as a way to explain the style/tone of the movie, and I just let go of the things that could have been better. Herzog doesn't have much screen time, but he's always a compelling presence.