An above average cop drama

Rating: 6/10 (17 July 2015)

In preparation for mission impossible rogue nation I thought I would watch the previous collaboration between the director and Tom Cruise. This film was much different to what I expected and I did enjoy it to a certain amount but I do believe it could have been allot better. Now Tom cruise is Jack reacher in this film and even though there was controversy over it I thought Tom cruise was great in this role. He was completely different to what he usually is, he plays a tough cop who doesn't care about anybody and is just around to do his job and nothing more. His character was clearly damaged and was really cool which definitely helped this film. Rosamund pike plays the lawyer that cruise works with and she is good in this film as well, her chemistry with cruise was fantastic and she was a good part of the film. David Oyelowo is in this film and I have been a big fan of this guy for this film and even though his character is pretty underdeveloped he did a decent job. I wasn't a huge fan of Richard Jenkins as the district attorney and don't really think he added anything to the film. Also the villains didn't come across as menacing as they should and it takes away from the film. People thought that the story wasn't going to be too detailed but it really was. It is actually a pretty clever film with allot of good detective and detailed scenes that make this film actually pretty interesting. I just felt that the villains schemes were not fleshed out well enough and the characters in general didn't really get fleshed out as much as I would have wanted. There was some good dialogue between cruise and pike which was really interesting and detailed but there was also some really bad comedic dialogue that took away from the film. The action scenes were great and heavy hitting but there wasn't too many of them. Also there are some really big tone shifts in the film that just confuse you. Overall this is an above average film that definitely has its positives but it also doesn't give me too much hope for mission impossible 5.