Piece of garbage

Rating: 2/10 (10 January 2014)

Tom Cruise really needs to stop making movies. This film has all of his typical clichés: Pithy retorts, self-righteous speeches, "manly" posing, etc. And the movie, story-wise, is just plain silly. I'd say more, but it's too stupid to waste the words. (I've never read a Jack Reacher story, but my husband loves them. Tells me that this is not at all a fair representation of the books.) So apparently, I have no choice. I have to give you the rest b/c they require 10 lines of text? Boo on IMDb. Anyway, let's see... there's a plot twist - although not exactly a surprise. there's the evil bad guy - but his story makes no sense and how he's connected to his henchmen or a plausible reason that he would be running around, killing people (kinda randomly offered). there's lots of violence. (Typical, i hear, for jack reacher books, but here, it comes across as manufactured. Like let's show the rock hitting the head or let's show a guy trying to hurt himself at the barrel of a gun, just for the sake of doing so. Doesn't add anything to the story's realism.) I'm perfectly happy to watch a movie that doesn't all fit neatly together; i wasn't expecting Shakespeare. But when you watch a movie and find yourself rolling your eyes a dozen times in the first dozen minutes, then you've got a piece of garbage.