My girlfriend burst out laughing and said, "So that's what they're like in Pittsburgh!"

Rating: 9/10 (16 October 2016)

The thing is, I can't find anything wrong with this film. I thought, I can't give it a 10, but then, what's there to complain about? Nothing. I haven't read the books, so I can't say it missed the mark there. I was legitimately saddened and angry by one event in the film, but not to mean the movie had no reason to do it, I had just begun to care about the character, that's all, and angry enough to be entirely pleased with a decision Jack Reacher makes later on in the film. The thing is, again, that the sad event in the movie is in no way a "just terribly off" collision movie-wise with the marvellously funny moment my girlfriend liked so much. It all works very well, it has a great ebb and flow to it. Honestly, all these reviews in which they say Jack Reacher has to be like in the book 6'4", 250 lbs. Don't they get it? It's a book, what do you have to do when there's no pictures? Make the guy 6'4", 250 lbs, that's what. If the guy in Jack Reacher the movie was 6'4, 250 lbs., the character on screen would have been completely unbelievable, he would probably never have evolved as a person into the way he is in the movie. Cruise nailed the character perfectly. Everything action-wise is constructed and executed realistically and imaginatively for someone of his physique. And when it's funny, it is really funny.