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articleFilm Favourites,"There is this guy... he's a kinda cop, at least he used to be. He doesn't care about proof, he doesn't care about the law, he only cares about what's right."
Genre: Action/Mystery/Thriller
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Cast: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Jai Courtney, David Oyelowo, Richard Jenkins, Robert Duvall, Joseph Sikora, Alexia Fast & Werner Herzog.
Run Time: 130 min.
US Release: 21 December 2012
UK Release: 26 December 2012
German Release: 03 January 2013
Since Jack Reacher: Never Look Back is being released in German cinemas today, I decided to post my review for the first Jack Reacher tonight with my analysis of the sequel following this Sunday. Jack Reacher came out late 2012 in the US and early 2013 in Germany, and it was the surprise action hit of the year. The trailers marketed this is as a mindless, non-stop action ride but what we obtained was so much more than that since it is a smart, dark and mysterious action-thriller with a few creepy moments. Jack Reacher was one of my favourite films of 2013 and includes a great performance by Tom Cruise!
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This movie is an adaptation of Lee Child’s One Shot, the ninth novel in the Jack Reacher series, and starts of with a man shooting people from a carpark across the PNC Park in Pittsburgh. Detective Emerson (Oyelowo) and District Attorney Rodin (Jenkins) arrest former U.S. sniper James Barr (Sikora), with evidence pointing towards him. During interrogation, he tells them to get Jack Reacher (Cruise), a former MP now living a drifter’s life, who is already on his way after having heard of the incident on the news.
Reacher arrives in Pittsburgh just after Barr was severely beaten in prison and now lying in intensive care. Helen Rodin (Pike), Barr’s attorney and daughter of District Attorney Rodin, is disturbed to hear that Reacher just came to see Barr die, but she convinces him of his innocence. Together they start an investigation that soon leads them to the real shooter, a Russian mobster who specialises in US real estates.
My biggest surprise and ultimately one of the two biggest assets this film has, is that the story to this action spectacle has more substance than it led to believe, while still knowing that it is a fun and over-the-top action piece. I know people that were put off by it because they just wanted to see a brainless action movie. I, on the other hand loved that it was more of a detective picture that took its time to tell a mystery investigation. I was also amazed at how dark Jack Reacher became at times because the villains wouldn’t stop at anything to reach their goal.
That doesn't mean that this movie hasn’t got any action in it, because it does have a fair amount of it, but the story focuses more on the case that Reacher and Helen have to solve. McQuarrie, who also pencilled the script, not only managed to create a captivating plot but also wrote the fantastic dialogue lines that perfectly balanced between deadly serious and very humorous.
Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher, a persona that combines Liam Neeson’s Taken fighting skills, with the perceptiveness of Sherlock Holmes. Cruise did a fantastic job portraying this character, especially since it isn’t his typical hero role. Reacher is more of a nomadic anti-hero, beating up military criminals along his journey. He is also a very introverted person. He meets Helen Rodin, the brilliant defence attorney, represented fairly well by Rosamund Pike. Their relationship is bumpy at first, because Reacher wants to see Barr dead, but along the way they build a semi-romantic relationship based on mutual respect for each other.
This is the movie where I saw Jai Courtney for the first time and I thought that he did a good job! That might be because his character didn’t need much talking, but rather standing around and looking threatening. Whatever he did, it worked as he sent me chills down my back. Werner Herzog is one of my favourite German actors and he was truly scary as Zec, head of the Russian real estate mafia. His screen time was limited, but it increased the effect he had on the movie.
Robert Duvall played one of the funniest characters in the movie and gave a magnificent rendition of Martin Cash, retired US Marines Corps Gunnery Sergeant who helps Reacher in the last action segment.
McQuarrie directed a fantastic looking action-thriller and Caleb Deschanel did a grand job as director of photography, showing a good sense for beauty and creepiness; the beautiful panoramic opening, where the killer shoots innocent pedestrians left me in awe and simultaneously gave me goosebumps. The stunt work was extremely well choreographed and Cruise performed, once again, nearly all of them himself. The fight scenes were at times a little too silly, but it didn’t really hamper my enjoyment of the movie.
Verdict: Jack Reacher was an extremely entertaining mystery-thriller with well-shot action sequences and a fantastic Tom Cruise performance. It may not follow the book’s plot one-hundred percent, but what McQuarrie managed to do is to bring back the good old fashioned action-thriller, which resembled the style of late 80’s and early 90’s action flicks. The story, while having depth, doesn’t take itself too serious and manages to balance well humorous dialogues in serious and threatening situations. The cinematography looks gorgeous and the action sequences are exceptionally well captured. This was one of my favourite movies of 2013 and I can only recommend it! I give Jack Reacher an 8 out of 10.
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