Good entertaining diversion, Jack Reacher has a wide reach!

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2013)

DVD from my local library. I don't have any affection for Tom Cruise, the man and his politics, but I find that he makes really interesting action movies, like this one.
Here Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher , we gradually find out he was a highly trained military man and expert marksman, but over the past few years has dropped off the grid. When 5 people are apparently randomly shot and killed sniper-like from long range in Pittsburgh, a quick investigation points to a man who had gone berserk and killed 5 while still in the military. But the only "confession" he writes is "get Jack Reacher." Before they even have a chance to look for him, he shows up.
Rosamund Pike is attorney Helen who volunteers to try to get the man's life spared, partly because she knows her dad, Richard Jenkins as District Attorney Rodin , usually wins his cases. But Reacher sizes up the situation and comes to his own alternate conclusion, the arrested man was framed, he was not a good enough marksman to pull it off, plus clues seemed to be left simply to implicate him.
As viewers we can see in the opening scenes who the real shooter was, and it indeed was NOT the man arrested, but we don't know why he is being framed. That part of the story is revealed very gradually up until the end.
I happen to like movies, like "Taken" where a man with superior skills hunts down and gets all the bad guys. This is that kind of movie.
SPOILERS: In fact the 5 killings were not random, but made to look that way. Four were random, but one was targeted, a woman who upon the death of her husband decided NOT to sell their business as planned. The foreign business entity that stood to lose from this decision was responsible for her execution, and the collateral deaths. A dirty cop was involved in the ruse.