good thinking; stereotyped scenes

Rating: 7/10 (7 September 2013)

Movie adheres to Lee Child's formula of presenting facts and data; giving you a few seconds to analyze; then having Jack Reacher interpret them for you. Sure, lotsa shooting and fighting, but the real interest is in Reacher's unraveling and reversing the obvious. Reacher very much an older TV series Equalizer or Lone Ranger: no connections, no relationships, just sorta appears, sets things right, and rides off into the sunset. The outcome of the sexual tension between the buff Jack and buxom Helen unexpected. The empty parking garage, streets during car chases, positioning of cars in the tunnel, elevator, courthouse, stereotyped. Example (spoiler?): How do the two bad guys lug a comatose Helen from the elevator through the ground floor of the courthouse with no one noticing? And we never do find out why the "mole" became a bad guy.