Tom Cruise Nails the Role of Jack Reacher

     Hey, everyone. Carley and I went out today and braved the swelling throngs of procrastinators, shopping for the late Christmas gifts. After a nice meal and a stop at a few stores, we went to see the movie titled Jack Reacher, with Tom Cruise in the title role. It rocks. I'd call it 5 stars out of 5 and Carley calls it 4.5 stars out of 5. As you know, Lee Child is the best-selling author of the Jack Reacher series. His fans were somewhat upset at the choice of Cruise because Tom is short and Reacher is tall. Let me set their minds at ease. Tom Cruise nails this role. Besides, any guy who does his own stunts and dates the women that Tom has dated, or married, deserves my respect and ~~jealousy~~ admiration. But, lets talk about the movie.
      In Pittsburgh, a crazed sniper shoots 5 innocent people at random. He is a burnout from the Iraqi war, a James Barr, and it is believed that he just flipped. For some reason, he asks for Jack Reacher to be sent for. This is funny, because Jack had been an Army investigator in his previous life and had, in fact, arrested Barr in Iraq. Nowadays, Jack Reacher just travels around the U.S., living free and staying off the grid. No address, no phone, no nothing. Basically owns the clothes on his back. But, Reacher shows up and talks to the authorities about the sniper.
     The District Attorney, a guy named Rodin, (Played by Richard Jenkins), has an airtight case, except his own daughter is James Barr's attorney. To Reacher, the case is a little bit too airtight, so he goes to work for Helen Rodin, the lawyer. ( Played by Rosamund Pike.)
     It doesn't take much poking from Reacher, before the snakes start to slither out from under the rocks. Reacher is set up by a hot young woman and 5 of her husky friends. Then the lawyer lady is threatened. Reacher assumes that there is a worm in the legal barrel at City Hall and tells Helen so. Unfortunately, that means, that either a police investigator named Emerson (David Oyelowo) or Helen's own dad, is dirty. She finds out which one it is when she faces a dude named The Zec (Warner Herzog). This nut case survived Siberia by chewing off his own fingers, so he doesn't cull too much in the way of violence and mayhem. Perhaps even more dangerous is his right-hand man (oops, that wasn't intentional), a guy called Charlie. He is a sniper and a genuine bad guy played by Jai Courtney.
     This show is 2 hours and 10 minutes of rock and roll. You need to go see it. My guess is, this will be a movie franchise, rather than a single show. Good night.
I'm CE Wills.
P.S. I love the '69 Chevelle.

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