A great story very poorly portrayed!

Rating: 2/10 (12 January 2013)

Lee Child's excellent story is done a dis-service by the poor casting and Tom Cruize's lack of understanding and empathy for the character.
First, Jack Reacher is 6'5" tall. Tom is 10" too short. The physical size of the character Jack is an eternal theme through all the novels. It gets him into trouble and fights, makes him a suspect and limits his options on the clothes he wears. Tom is very poorly cast for this role.
Secondly. Jack is a taciturn character. Tom's attempt to portray this just doesn't work.
I can understand the high ratings that people who haven't read the books give this movie, as Lee Child's story is excellent and makes a great action movie. It's just a great pity that the rest of this movie production is so poor.