Decent flick

Rating: 7/10 (20 August 2013)

I thought it was a decent flick, neither all-action nor all-thriller. I acknowledge the brouhaha about the diminutive Tom Cruise playing the tall and brawny Jack Reacher. I have not read any of Lee Childs' books, so I am not very invested in that question. Cruise, for all of his off-set looniness, has that charisma, the star power, that overcomes any deficiencies in his acting. Robert Duvall played his stock character right out of Days of Thunder. But it is still pretty good. And Werner Herzog as "the zek" is sufficiently menacing and creepy. I was not familiar with Rosamund Pike, but was very impressed with her acting, and her beauty. I will have to look for more of her roles.