Cruise raises a smirk or two, but at no point does he flash those pearly whites. Perhaps one of the biggest masterstrokes in McQuarrie’s direction of Cruise was that he’d clearly forbidden Tom from smiling. Reacher is a guy who just wants to be left alone, and Cruise made us believe this. His near ambivalence to the sniper shootings which open the movie was conveyed extremely well. Exposition was largely left to Rosamund Pike’s lawyer, Helen Rodin.Ĭruise also nailed the Reacher attitude. This was reminiscent of how the Reacher character converses in the book. Many of Cruise’s lines were short and sharp, all business with little waffle. McQuarrie played up the non-physical side of Reacher for his movie. He was helped considerably by director Christopher McQuarrie’s script. While it wasn’t a performance for the ages, Tom Cruise hit the mark more than not with his portrayal of Reacher. Was it the complete disaster that many had predicted? No, it was actually quite good, thanks in no small part (no pun intended) to Tom Cruise. Now it’s January 2013, and Jack Reacher has been unleashed on the movie going public in all its Cruise-shaped glory.
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