Evidently a good flick

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2013)

Apart from the movie a few good men, this was a nice twist to the detective genre's. Tom Cruise plays a man called Jack Reacher, a once highly decorated soldier in the army who had enough of the bureaucracy red tape which leaves political officials in the clear when creating black operations that leave innocent people dead. In his defiance, he often took demotions during his clashes with his superiors until he finally quits the military to become a wandering lone wolf persona. A man who does not like the fact that people who do evil things can get away with it. During his excursion on the run he witnessed a news report about a man who seemingly killed five random people. In his earlier career as an officer, this was a tell tale to one other named Barr that if he did something horrendous again even after his release that Jack would be coming after him to set Barr straight with a bullet to the head. But as with all slam dunk cases, this one had too many perfect set ups to allow Barr to die in the chair, or spend his last days in prison. Jack through his relentless investigating, and his partner Helen (Rosamund Pike) dig up new clues as to why the five random people died needlessly. Through every turn, this film had quite the twists especially with Emmerson. A cop who in a way helps Jack in the case, but at a distance. Yet for all of Jack's pursuits his ability to close this case was drawing nearer when another part of the plot entered by the name of The Zec (The Prisoner). A man who spent nearly all of his life in a Siberian Prison Camp. Now this was the confusing part, why or who was this man in the first place? Why was Barr the one being the patsy? And why was a company which was to be sold held on by a woman who hated the company in the first place? What has that got to do with The Prisoner Zec? Did he own the company? Was he a senior share holder? Who stood to make money out of it? Although the movie did have some nice twists, it would have been better to know these things as well. I gave it ten out of ten stars because of the build up to the architect of the shootings. But to be honest, I would have liked to find out why the company was so important to those involved. What was the company for? Who other than the woman who owned it had more to gain? Why was it necessary to blow her away? It was still an open case movie even at the end for me since we didn't find out why. If there is a new movie coming, it would be nice to see bits of the first movie being closed.