Not bad, DVD worthy viewing

Rating: 7/10 (24 December 2012)

I thought Jack Reacher was decent entertainment, with Cruise doing the best he could as the main character, even though he was not really an appropriate choice for the role. I would have expected a gruffer and tougher appearing actor to have been Reacher, such as Jason Statham, for example. Tom Cruise is kind of too much of a "pretty boy" for the role, but at the same time he does try his level best as the character, and it's a good try at any rate.
One thing I appreciated about the film is the variety of locations in the scenes, from wide cityscapes to an industrial gravel pit site, to a gun range/store, there was always something interesting in the background and the movie moved along at a good clip, and didn't feel like its two hour running time.
I also liked that the movie didn't do the automatic cliché romance interest that might have been expected between Cruise's character and the blonde attorney character. Often times film makers will do a romance in movies in a seemingly lazy routine, but in this one they just completely refused to do that, which was a nice change of pace. This is workmanlike movie making and that is something I enjoyed. I also thought Robert Duvall's character was entertaining playing a former marine, as a cranky but lovable old man.