Reaches...

Rating: 2/10 (12 May 2013)

I've got to award "Reacher" with a 2/10 simply because of the camp. After awhile, the movie is so bad that it's kinda good.
I wanted to watch because TC has a real presence on screen, and I think he very much knows that. What he doesn't know, and what makes him blind, is his vanity. No longer is he willing to take chances like he did in "Jerry Maguire". TC simply is not vulnerable anymore; he's here to save the world for all the little people. Period.
So he's 5'6 in real life and they need to shoot him from the ground up and won't do many side by side shots with him and other actors - so what - he's TC. So he has to have every woman desire him and pose with his shirt off in extra long shots while a woman much taller than him is forced to sit and ogle him on the bed, OK, fine. So he never gets nervous when surrounded by thugs who somehow magically turn into keystone cops as bullets are flying at his head. So what if the best sniper in the Army can't actually shoot Reacher. So what if one of the best actors of our time (Duvall) is told to come in at the end and play second fiddle to the great TC. It's a TC production, and it says that from the start.
All you need to know is that this movie was made for a twelve year old or, just maybe, by a twelve year old (guess who). If you don't believe me, watch the scene where the guy is being interrogated at the beginning and he writes on a piece of paper, "Get Jack Reacher". He writes this in big block letters for the camera so the audience can see it clearly and so the twelve year old watching can understand what's going to happen next. Oh, and when the camera shows the guy writing this prior, his hand is not tracing huge letters out on the page - he's just writing what looks to be small cursive, as any person would normally write.
I couldn't watch the end, but I'm thinking TC does something awesome there and his hair looks perfect, as it does the whole movie. Maybe a few more minutes of hero worship, I don't know, just thinking out loud now.