Jack Reacher is Conan in 2k meeting Wild West, not a civilized investigator

Rating: 6/10 (25 May 2015)

I saw this movie once and thought it was a pretty solid action movie with Tom Cruise, that is why I still give it a 6. If you want to know more read on.
After reading all books of Lee about Reacher in one go, I watched the movie again and have to say: This is not Jack Reacher.
It misses the Conanesque elements of Jack Reacher who is a law onto its own, it misses the trip through the US from left to right that tries to tell the US story, it misses the acts of every book in which Reacher falls prey to his own assumptions to make them right with some great insights, it misses the brutal fights that ends with broken knees, elbows and head butts incapacitating the middle men before taking out the main guys.
What it does try to do is a car chase (every movie should have one, but Reacher in the books definitely states he is not good at it), a final fight against the bad guy (nice Tim Cruise action movie, not JR;)) and not the cat and mouse game he plays with the police that happens in the book.
Nice action movie, not Jack Reacher.