Average crime thriller with Cruise doing his generic action hero performance

Rating: 5/10 (9 November 2015)

I'd been looking foreword to watching this but ultimately wasn't overly impressed. I actually found it kind of dull and long winded, which is a weird thing to say about an action movie, but something was just off and it seemed to drag.
I've only read one of the Jack Reacher books and initially didn't care about the casting but what I found happened here was that this just became another Tom Cruise vehicle with him redoing his generic action hero performance and adding some bad one liners. What was up with those cheesy one liners anyway, very dumb.
What I do remember from the books was that Reacher read a bit like Sherlock Holmes, very smart, analytical and one step ahead of what's taking place. He was cool not a bully as Cruise came across here. The story/mystery also felt very 80's and wasn't even all that interesting, just your standard old school action crime thriller.
Back up cast included David Oyelowo, Richard Jenkins, Robert Duvall and Rosamund Pike as a sort of Bond Girl.10/27/15