Tom Cruise delivers the goods

Rating: 9/10 (23 December 2012)

There are those who say that this Tom Cruise movie should have been a "made for TV movie". But I am not one of those people. Tom Cruise is the best Hollywood actor of all time in my opinion. I have been a big Tom Cruise fan since Top Gun. Tom Cruise plays Jack Reacher in this movie. He is literally hard to reach. Nobody can ever really determine what's going on with him. Tom Cruise is a detective kind of a guy in this flick. I love the way Tom Cruise acts. There are those who say Tom Cruise needs to keep on his shirt. Well, slap me with a crayon noodle and call me crazy, but I thought his build was good. Heck, if I look like Tom Cruise at 50, I will be happy! The scene where Tom Cruise pops out from behind the wall and perfectly kills the black cop was a little over the top. There are those who say the writers were lazy at that point but I think that Tom Cruise was just a good shot. The shooter (Charlie) played by the guy from Gladiator was really good in this role. Tom Cruise was very convincing when he had that telephone conversation with him. Tom Cruise called him like three times and during one of those times - he said "I think I want to kill you". Tom Cruise had a lot of tough guy lines in this movie, that's for sure. When Tom Cruise kept bringing up the quarter and the parking meter, I was confused. Why was he so obsessed with the quarter? The black guy at the end told Laura Dern that he had no choice. I was confused about that as well. What was the deal? Did Werner Herzog have his family held hostage or something? Tom Cruise told the black guy toward the end something about the quarter. I still don't get it. I also don't understand why Tom Cruise never did his famous "fin run"? That's his famous style of running! But I do like how he fought those five guys in the street. That was classic Tom Cruise! "Remember, you asked for this." That was funny. It would seem that Tom Cruise has a "certain set of skills" similar to Jason Bourne and Liam Neison from Taken. That girl who played Sandy was very attractive according to my friend Jake. Yet I have never seen her before. Let's see, what else? I guess I will just say that the scene where Werner Herzog told that guy from True Blood to chew off his fingers was pretty original! Good going Tom Cruise! I have never read a Jack Reacher book and have no idea about him but as far as I am concerned, Tom Cruise IS Jack Reacher.