Thrilling investigation story with realistic conflicts, but too many killings

Rating: 10/10 (5 May 2013)

I seldom read detective stories or watch such films because I often get bored with it very quickly. My teenage TV diet consisted of too many detective stories that I began to abhor it.
Before watching this film, I have never heard of Jack Reacher, but I knew that the story was a based on a theme of police investigation.
Jack Reacher was a thoroughly refreshing unexpected story. Although some clichés were used, I never felt it was clichéd.
This film kept me on the edge of my seat, and wanting to find out what was the ending. 10/10... Tom Cruise's intensity of expression, and the excellent cinematography, all made this a thoroughly engaging experience. Extremely rare to find such a great character-driven movie today. Not special-effects driven with mindless plots.
The one thing I didn't accept was too many killings. That was not realistic. But one can argue that not killing the bad guys will be the clichéd moralistic view.