It works

Rating: 9/10 (27 December 2012)

Okay, yes, I'm one of the initial skeptics who assumed because Tom Cruise was playing a 6'5" ex-army badass, that the film would be awful and Lee Child forever a sellout.
I am here to tell you...it works.
Do you ever forget that Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise? No. Does it matter that this role is interchangeable with his Mission Impossible character? Not really.
It's too bad, because Jack Reacher, as characters go, is unique. But ultimately it is Lee Child's STORY that is completely amazing, and the movie production serves the story very well.
So, Lee Child fans, fear not. Go see it. Increase the fame and fortune of Mr. Child who, lord knows, has been writing lo these many years and deserves to have his very excellent plots put on the big screen. And thank you to Mr. Cruise who, no doubt, was responsible for getting the book onto the screen.
I look forward to the next ones--both book and film.