If someone wants to look at a rough and tough action hero, then he must slip into hall for the action thriller Jack Reacher

Rating: 7/10 (7 January 2013)

An old-fashioned guy, Jack Reacher loves to board a bus and reach his destination. He doesn't carry a mobile phone. He does not even care to load his wallet with credit cards. He is a real man having a muscular and robust stature. Tom Cruise surely has been able to do justice with the character of Jack Reacher, as explained in the novel One Shot by Lee Child. Tom Cruise is not a six feet five inches tall protagonist, whom Child has portrayed beautifully in the novel, but Mr. Cruise has successfully represented the tough and mysterious guy in the movie through his acting. As the story goes on the central figure of the movie is a military policeman who has got a wide knowledge about arms and ammunitions and is an expert in hand-to-hand and face-to-face combat. He is lonely and self-sufficient; utters few words and doesn't care to present explanations for his deeds. He doesn't care to jump in fire to get the mask of false, misdeed and deception peeled off from the mouth of truth and loyalty, and can go on fighting and struggling like a crusader to carry the holy chalice of truth in his hand. In short, Jack Reacher has been a figure of fantasy and attraction for ladies.
Action sequences of the movie are highly enjoyable and but not a very good thing about the thriller is that there are some unexpected and wrongly placed moments of laughter and cheese. The laughable sequence of Cruise's shirt-off scene cannot be said as very rightly and effectively placed in the sequence of the movie. Besides, Pike and Cruise are not getting together cozily for even a single scene where they can show off the thriller of the chemistry called love to audience. The scene where Helen (Pike) and Jack (Reacher) were in a room of the motel, discussing about their secret plan of tracking the actual figure behind random attacks, does not even portray Cruise as a flirt and lover of woman. The director seems to intentionally cut short any kind of Epicureanism for this American action thriller. But, Pike, Oyelowo as well as Jenkins performed satisfactorily for the thriller movie. Spectators are giving the director of Jack Reacher, Christopher McQuarrie a green light for directing and shooting the movie's sequel. The sense of mystery and awe has been well presented in the movie. Cruise has scored a terrific and dashing ten out of ten marks for his character in the movie as an action hero.