Tom Cruise doesn’t strike me as the most obvious choice as a badass action lead, but Hollywood seems to think otherwise, and he did do a great job in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, sooo…I might give Jack Reacher a chance. Weirdly enough, the action in the trailer looked pretty good, but it was the guy at the end handing Reacher his hat for a “disguise” that amused me the most. Jack Reacher dives deep investigating a military sniper who killed five people, getting himself into a lot of shenanigans along the way, and disguises himself using only a hat. Silly Jack! Whatever, as long as he’s serving up a thick slice of justice pie, it’s all good. Jack Reacher will reach theaters December 21, 2012.
This is the Action Flick Chick, and you’ve just been kicked in the ass!
I really want to like this because the Reacher series of books are some of my favorites.
… I just can’t stand Tom Cruise though. Of ALLL the actors they had to pick for that role I just don’t get that as a casting decision. Box office draw, maybe? I guess? But physically he’s about as far from Reacher as he’s physically described in the books as you can get.
Even the hand to hand combat scenes — very Mission Impossible / Charlie’s Angels looking stuff when Reacher typically uses short, incapacitating power blows like elbows to the temple or punches to the throat or otherwise. And the car and his clothing and… ugh.
Looks to be a good movie. Yes, the action is Mission impossible style. And again true, Tom Cruise doesn’t appear like the bad guy type. 🙁
not the most obvious choice but cruise can be a bad ass when he wants to be. you mentioned ghost protocol and he was also pretty bad ass in collateral.