Disappointing retread of a vigilante-style cop movie...

Rating: 3/10 (27 December 2012)

1st watched 12/25/2012 – 3 out of 10(Dir-Christopher McQuarrie): Disappointing retread of a vigilante-style cop movie with Tom Cruise producing and starring, and again showing me that when a star gets too involved in a project it goes to his head. Cruise stars as the lead character, Jack Reacher, who is a former military intelligence person who doesn't go by the rules when going after his prize(aka. Dirty Harry, Charles Bronson in a bunch of movies and others). The interesting part is that it takes forever for us to understand that this movie is a retread of those types because of it's mystery story approach as we try to determine who's at fault for the initial shooting, and it's consistently confusing us all the time(which for me—was not a good thing). There are some good chase scenes and, of course, lots of rough violent scenes(I'm amazed this movie got a PG-13 rating because of this). Considering this was released shortly after the Connecticut school killings and being about a shooter of innocent folk just walking about around Pittsburgh – it should be box office poison, but from the ending it appears Cruise is attempting to have sequels but I personally don't think this is going to happen, or at least shouldn't.