Met My VERY Low Expectations

Rating: 1/10 (12 August 2015)

I have read every Jack Reacher book or story out there. I love them! For me they are better than candy. When I heard Tom Cruise was going to play the title role in this movie I was very disappointed. I decided 2 things: 1 - I won't see the movie and 2 - it won't spoil the books for me. I will still see Jack Reacher as the towering, powerful person Lee Child portrays in the books. So, this morning I was flipping the channels and saw the movie on FX. I figured - why not give it a few minutes? Maybe it isn't as bad as I thought. To my surprise, it was even worse than I thought. In the 5 minutes I watched, Tom Cruise walks into a bar and towers over the other people in the bar. How? The dude is 5'7" - the only bar he can "tower" in is a hobbit bar. Then he promptly annoys a little girl who's big, bad boy friends take Jack outside to teach him a lesson. Really? Then Tom Cruise proceeds to beat the smirk out of the 5 opponents in one of the cheesiest fight scenes I've ever seen. (I don't want to compare any other movies to this one so I don't offend them). Bottom line, too bad. I would've loved to see a good Jack Reacher flick. I guess it isn't going to happen.