In “Jack Reacher,”
Tom Cruise is the coolest guy in the room who’s miles ahead of everyone else, can
fight five guys no sweat, and when he walks by -– even at a Goodwill –- every
woman swoons. The college girls, too. Yes, Cruise may be “playing” Jack
Reacher, but really he’s spinning on his own ego. And since Reacher is one of
those secret Army guys with no personality or background, why not let Cruise do
so? He is the main attraction. Sorry Lee Child books fans. Here, Reacher
investigates a mass murder carried out by an ex-Army sniper who we know is
innocent because we saw another man (Jai Courtney) do the deed. Fear not,
Reacher/Cruise will down every villain, right up to the one-fingered evil Blofeld
cousin (famed director Werner Herzog) with an agenda so uninspired 007 would yawn.
Not Reacher/ Cruise. He coolly threatens, scowls, and drives a Chevelle in a
kick-ass car chase that’s a riotous hoot. All of this is carried out as a
massacre plot that shies at the shock of violence to get a kid-friendly PG-13.
But post-Sandy Hook, when a movie killer targets children, why are we not
looking at an automatic R rating? B-
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