In this
movie, Cruise obsesses over a woman whilst trying to get a job done. “What,
again?” you might ask and yes, this is a well to common trait of Tom Cruise
movies. Let’s have a look where plays a cop that’s supposed to be considerably
taller than him.
Based on the
2005 novel ‘One Shot’ written as a part of a series by Lee Child, Jack Reacher
enjoyed moderate success earning $218m on a $60m budget. Not exactly the usual
flare of a Cruise movie. But then it says it all that there was a promotional
competition for the movie on the channel Dave.
Paramount
and Cruise/Wagner productions acquired the rights to Child’s novels in 2005 (and it only took them 2013 to release the product) after the failure of several other attempts at an adaptation. Cruise’s casting
in the role was met with some criticism given the stature of Jack Reacher in
the book.
So, let’s
dig in
