Poor casting & dialogs

Rating: 6/10 (9 June 2014)

I will begin by saying that I have read all Lee Child's novels and even if my idea of how does Jack Reacher look is questionable because subjective, the fact remains that Tom Cruise doesn't have the look or the behavior of Reacher. He is a skilled actor, no doubts about it, and he could play a similar character, but half of the image of JR consists in his appearance and Tom Cruise isn't even close to have it. The other weak point of the movie are the insane dialogs especially those at the end of the movie. Phrases like "Now what" or "Where are you going now" or "What shall do without you" (as examples) at the very end of the movies are good examples of C-rated movies from the 70-80's, but don't have a place in a high speed action-thriller as should have been "Jack Reacher". Dear dialog writers, don't underestimate the audience by writing such idiotic remarks. The only goal achieved in such cases is that the whole impression of the movie is spoiled with three or four misplaced unfortunate phrases. After all this, I can say that the movie is a typical American action-thriller, not bad at all, but has nothing to do with Jack Reacher books or characters. Real shame for all Lee Childs fans.