Friday, 12 July 2013

Jack Reacher

From my LoveFilm subscription, this is an adaption of the book One Shot by the British author, Lee Child. Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) is asked to investigate the shooting of five people by a sniper he once investigated of a similar crime.


A fairly run-of-the-mill action thriller with some good martial arts and such a good car chase (not in a Ford Focus) the film could well have been justified in being called Drive. Cruise is hardly stretched (he did his own stunts, though) and Robert Duvall looks happy with the money. What Werner Herzog is doing in the film is a bit baffling, although he does look like the man who threatened to kill Klaus Kinski.

Taken all around, not a bad little pizza movie but not exactly taxing either.

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