Ignore The Haters. It's More Than Enjoyable

Rating: 7/10 (2 November 2017)

Jack Reacher (2012)
Plot In A Paragraph: Jack Reacher (Cruise) digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.
Since I have never read any of Lee Childs novels, I'm not one of the people who bitch that Tom Cruise has no business playing Jack Reacher, the six-five, 250-pound ex-military cop. I just take the movie on face value and from that point Cruise is good in the role, watching it, I didn't need to dispense belief believe that he could do those things. He was totally believable in the role. He is looking a bit older in this movie than his last few movies and I don't recall seeing that famous grin either.
So what I think happened was, a bunch of book readers were up in arms about Cruise's casting and slated the movie without seeing it, and a bunch of movie fans who probably never watched the movie slated it, because it was cool too.
I thought it was an enjoyable action movie. It's ending is a tad anti climactic, but it's never dull or boring and it does not drag. I didn't even mind Jai Courtney, whom I despise seeing on screen. Thankfully he doesn't speak much, as his accent is awful. Rosamund Pike is really good in what could have been a cliché role.
Jack Reacher grossed $80 million at the domestic box office to end the year, the 38th highest grossing movie of 2012.