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Monday 10 June 2013

JACK REACHER [2012]

5' 7" actor Tom Cruise plays 6'5" title character Jack Reacher in Chris McQuarrie's adaptation of Lee Child's 9th Reacher novel One Shot.
The novel has a nihilistic gritty noir feel to it that is almost completely lost in the film, instead making Cruise look like some sort of moody white knight.  Although Cruise is effective and quite believable as a trained ass-kicker it's his embarrassing ego that gets in the way.  Who does this guy think he is?  The duller than dull script is atrociously forced and seems like Little Man Scientology rewrote it himself with something to prove and just came off as a conceded schmuck.  

1 parking meter out of 5

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