Good enough? Sure was for me.

Rating: 10/10 (17 April 2013)

Well, what can I say besides I had very low expectations thanks to the critics of this movie. And guess what. I really enjoyed the movie despite that the Reacher character in the movie was not up to par with the book version as many of the complaints focused on. To be honest who really cares if the movie didn't follow the book entirely considering this is a work of fiction anyway. I enjoyed the fight scenes and the story was woven together nicely. The movie had some nice surprises too and wasn't too predictable like many lame movies are these days. In fact this movie had me guessing at some of the bad guys until they all revealed themselves.
I generally don't care much for Tom Cruise movies although Risky Business and Top Gun were actually very good movies and I did watch them. The Mission Impossible franchise was OK but felt they could have done more with it. The point I'm trying to get at was I enjoyed his Reacher character in this movie. I don't care if he wasn't 250 lbs and 10 feet tall as some of the critics expected. Cruise did a good job in my books for this role and I hope to see him play more characters like this. In fact I hope they make more of the Jack Reacher movies too. Considering the crud I've seen in the last 10 years this was a nice surprise. My only regret was missing the movie while it was showing in my local theatre. I had to settle for blu-ray instead. LOL