Entertaining "Dirty Harry" Wannabe

Rating: Null/10 (26 December 2012)

It's always nice to see Tom Cruise appear in an action movie. While he's no Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson, his performance alone makes this worth watching. It's refreshing to see that he and lawyer Helen have nothing more than a professional relationship, something that's not in the movies too often (or maybe I have a bad memory). Also, the character of Sandy is nonessential to the movie. They first meet in a bar, but so what? If there was a point to this so-called meeting, I must have missed it. Robert Duvall has a thankless role as a gun shop owner, and one of the characters (whose name I won't spoil), I'm sorry to say, is yet another of Hollywood's good guy-turned bad characters. The point of these characters, is beyond me. "Jack Reacher" doesn't exactly break new ground, but it's highly entertaining.
*** out of ****