Jack Reacher

[Murgatroy]

Bump and old thread here.

 

This is on Netflix, and I recalled the previews looked good.

 

It is a worthy watch for an action flick. I liked it, I liked how the story paced, I liked the characters.

 

I am not a huge Tom Cruise fan, but I must grudgingly admit that he is a competent actor and he has produced very few (...cough War of the Worlds cough...) failures. I like most of what he does.

 

I liked the end, the 'moral' if you would call it that, the epilogue as narrated by the patsy.

[glowdotGlock]

I am late to this party but I just watched it on netflix last night. I liked it. I let it play again this morning while I was cooking breakfast.

[hipower]

Gonna have to watch it again...I can't remember much of it at the moment. But that's ok, that way I'll always have a new movie to watch. lol

[rbishop]

Read all the books. A new one was recently released. Cruise would not have been my pick for the movie, but I can't think of anyone else in Hollyland that could portray him like the books do.

[rugerla1]

Gonna have to watch it again...I can't remember much of it at the moment. But that's ok, that way I'll always have a new movie to watch. lol

Same here, gonna have to watch it again.

[TN-popo]

One of the few instances where I think I liked the movie better than the book (I only read the first one).

IIRC, the author needed to do a little more subject matter research on the military and guns.  He made MPs/CID out to be some sort of SF types.

Maybe nerdy, but all the inaccuracies turned me off.

[GlockSpock]

One of the few instances where I think I liked the movie better than the book (I only read the first one).
IIRC, the author needed to do a little more subject matter research on the military and guns. He made MPs/CID out to be some sort of SF types.
Maybe nerdy, but all the inaccuracies turned me off.

Movie is based on One Shot, that's #9.

[TN-popo]

Gotcha.  I was just using the two as a reference regarding the inaccuracies.

They seemed less glaring, to me, in the movie.

[TMF]

One of the few instances where I think I liked the movie better than the book (I only read the first one).
IIRC, the author needed to do a little more subject matter research on the military and guns. He made MPs/CID out to be some sort of SF types.
Maybe nerdy, but all the inaccuracies turned me off.

Yeah, my buddy had a collection of his books and I tried one of them for a little bit until I couldn't take it anymore. Nothing against MPs, but it was absolutely ridiculous.

I liked the movie though for the comedic value. I just watched Edge of Tomorrow, and it was real good as well. As much as Tom Cruise is a lunatic, he does some good movies.


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[Duck]

Overall I believe that it was a good movie. I didn't find it anymore fictional than anything else coming out of Hollywood. The idea that some intelligent, skilled investigator would just be a wonderer is not believable but then again it is. While I have I have met some douchbag MP's in and out of the service, I have also met some that I thought were stellar folks. You have to realize that if they get an identifier they are probably the top 3% of their MOS. Two of the guys I worked with in the past were civilian police officers/troopers who were also in reserves who went active duty to go CID. Some of the inaccuracies like a West Point graduate being an investigator were sour but it is what it is.