not bad, not great

Rating: 6/10 (21 November 2013)

Based on the Lee Child novel, Tom Cruise plays Jack Reacher, an anti-hero type with seemingly zero vices and a moral code which supersedes the law. Don't expect any Oscar winning performances here, but the script takes off quickly, and for a two hour plus movie, it is reasonably entertaining. The one annoying thing to me was too many camera shots of Rosamund Pike's surgically enhanced chest. While there is a bit of sexual tension between her character and Cruise's character, the overabundance of cleavage shots looked cheap and out of place. Overall, this is a reasonable action flick if you don't have deep expectations from the script.