As good as it could have likely been considering the casting choice...

Rating: 7/10 (22 August 2013)

Casting Tom Cruise as 6'5" Jack Reacher was undoubtedly a bad move. The books portray Reacher as a giant essentially, yet Tom Cruise was shorter than virtually everybody else in the film.
That said, the film was still enjoyable and it stuck fairly well to the plot of the original novel. There was a decent supporting cast overall, and Werner Herzog played The Zec very well, I thought.
I'm not sure who could have played Reacher better - though someone with a better physical description was necessary, really - but it's clear the film-makers went for the Hollywood option rather than going for a more suitable candidate to play the ex-MP.