Cheesy but gripping nonetheless

Rating: 7/10 (30 October 2013)

I also thought Rosamund Pike had large breasts: most actresses are either without or under-endowed. Turns out she was five months pregnant by lurking City weirdo Robie Uniacke: he of the four previous wives, several of them much younger than him, including Ros. Tom Cruise produced this movie, which made at least $20 million profit, so hack writer Lee Child drew the crowds in for this ageing Hollywood hero, who doesn't seem able to lose money on pictures, an unusual quality. How he produces, reads and learns scripts while being dyslexic is something no one understands except him, and he attributes it to his Scientology. Go figure! Jack Reacher might be another multi-picture venture for Cruise, because age doesn't matter when you are an avenging angel. Of course, the end is the big disappointment in this kind of beyond-the-law fantasy, because all the bad guys are lying dead in the street. But this story has a good twist in it, and the villain has only one finger!