Just plain boring and uninteresting

Rating: 5/10 (27 June 2013)

What can be mistaken as "cool" and entertaining these days is beyond me, and Jack Reacher certainly falls into this category. Tom Cruise stars and gives a kind of robotic performance that borders on camp but is super serious at the same time. And that's the thing everything in this film has a tough outer shell, but underneath is well nothing, there's no filling.
The film is way to long for story that is actually pretty superficial and simplistic and some curious storytelling is in place here. The audience is constantly in front of the characters because we are given privy to the information that other characters need right away and this creates a sort of non-tension that makes me think it was a bad call. The way I see great detective films is, give the audience the same information as the characters and let them try to figure it out for themselves. The storytelling inertia of this film, and similar films is going to give the audience the answer and it discouraged me from paying too much attention to the details, of which there aren't many to begin with.
The story itself is well, basic and thoroughly uninteresting but attempts to be controversial in certain aspects and that just took me out of the immersion wanted by the filmmakers. This type of film also asks viewers to forgive too much of camera movement and therefore characters tend to be wherever the plot needs them to be at that moment, but that's not even my biggest gripe.
The film is just boring and uninteresting, and no amount of Tom Cruise beating up people and being a stone-faced bad a** can get me to like this. Sorry.