Something about Tom Cruise and Jack Reacher in a sentence together makes me crave an interstate rest stop.

AdolfOliverPanties: Never read the books, have no real concept of the character. How much will this casting affect/offend me?

The character is a grizzled middle aged retired marine MP who though a US citizen, rarely spent time in the US because he was a Military brat. He's a Mary Sue taciturn, trained detective who literally has no possessions besides a toothbrush, and while he can use his wits to solve crimes, he is often called upon to use his significant brawn. Often he knows that he can win a fight because he sees that his opponent has smaller bone structure or underestimates the speed that someone built like a linebacker and trained by the USMC would have.

This guy is being played by Tom Cruise.

So, Tom can drive a stick? Colour me surprised.

Tom Cruise: how do I simultaneously make a lot of money while subtly announcing to the world that I'm gay? ..... I got it!

and it's as awful as you could imagine



I don't know, I can imagine quite alot.

Tom Cruise is to Jack Reacher as a dose of hot summer Alabama swamp ass is to Chanel No 5

douchebag/hater: The truth is the books are fairly bad and used the same template for the 3 I read before giving up on them.
1) Reacher comes into town and immediatly gets into some form of trouble with the local authorities that leads him to get involved in a mystery.
2) He mets a local female cop/lawyer with personal problems who farks him almost immediately
3) He beats up a gang of 3-5 tough guys who don't know who they are messing with.
4) He buys new/used clothes somewhere because he travels with as little as possible.
5) He gets severly beat up and solves the case
6) He walks/rides the bus out of town.

You must have hated Kung Fu.

I have 2 words. Mickey farking Rourke!

Wow, that looked terrible. Especially when he's supposed to be ominous, and he's this little wee guy with a girly voice. It did look like a VHS 1980s action flick though. It looks like a long lost Steven Seagal movie.

Looks okay to me

I love the 'Reacher' books and I can't imagine a worse casting decision than TC as Jack Reacher. Well, I could, but that would mean imagining Brittney Spears as Jack Reacher.

/will not be seeing the movie.

consider this: I know it's cool to hate on Tom Cruise and all, but it looks pretty damn cool to me. Reminds me of 80's action flicks.

Imma see it for the cheese value. Plus he almost won me back for his dance in Tropic Thunder.

I don't know... he seems less gay than some fanboy trying to defend the honor of what Jack Reacher really looks like.

The English Major: I kept thinking and hoping it was a joke. I mean...yeesh, I know books aren't always adapted the greatest, but this was a hugeeensy, weensy, teeny, tiny casting mistake.

Bathia_Mapes: AdolfOliverPanties: Never read the books, have no real concept of the character. How much will this casting affect/offend me?

This is Jack Reacher's physical description. As a fan of the book, I'm really pissed that Tom Cruise was case in the role.

Physical appearance

Reacher is a giant, standing at 6' 5" tall (1.96m) with a 50-inch chest, and weighing between 210 and 250 pounds (100-115 kg). He has ice-blue eyes and dirty blond hair. He has very little body fat, and his muscular physique is completely natural (he reveals in Persuader, he has never been an exercise enthusiast.) He is exceptionally strong but is not a good runner.. Reacher is strong enough to break a man's neck with one hand (Bad Luck and Trouble) and kill a villain with a single punch to the head (Running Blind and 61 Hours) or chest (Worth Dying For). In a fight against a 7 foot, 400 lb steroid-using thug (Persuader), Reacher was able to lift his opponent into the air and drop him on his head.

Reacher has various scars, most notably a scar on his abdomen caused by a bombing in Lebanon. He also has a 3-4 inch thin white scar that intersects his shrapnel scar that he received during a knife fight with Al-Qaeda operative Lila Hoth. Reacher mentions how the rough stitch work from his existing scar helped decrease the severity of his most recent attack. However, the cut did produce a deep, serious gash that led to Reacher passing out from blood loss. He also has a scar on his chest from a .38 bullet,[6] a tear drop burn scar from close range gunshot that crossed his chest at point blank range, and one on his arm where his brother struck him with a chisel in his youth.

This is like a pudgy, middle-aged man's version of a romance novel, isn't it?

Jamdug!: Crack Reacher maybe

That is the sequel
Jack Reacher: Round 2

That's...unfortunate.

The movie where a pretty 5'7" guy with blazing white teeth plays a rough and tumble 6'5" badass who never uses toothpaste? Yeah, who woulda known.....