Very, very disappointing

Rating: 2/10 (22 August 2014)

As a great Jack Reacher fan I bought the DVD of this movie to see my hero on screen. What a disappointment. Tom Cruise is -as many already mentioned- a total miscast, when you need a blockbuster-actor, Sylvester Stallone had even been better. But worst of all: every intriguing aspect that makes the books of Lee Child read-worthy is missing. Jack Reacher is a modern Sherlock Holmes, a loner, extremely well equipped for his task (seeking for justice), not especially pretty but trained, very strong and extremely sensitive to (visual) details. His force is logical deduction. The movie neglects this aspect in any way. That is a shame. Unbelievable that Lee Child gave his permission for this totally uninteresting commercial product.