Based on the 2005 novel by Lee Child called One Shot, Reacher is an ex-army police officer who is a drifter with no job or home who is called into help solve the mystery of a sniper who killed 5 people in a crowd. He believes it is an ex-military man who he worked with but is believed to be innocent by the mans sister. It's down to Jack Reacher to solve the crime using tactics that aren't legal or approved by the Police.
Unfortunately, the trailer makes the film look incredibly cliché to the point that I think it would possibly work better as a comedy action film that mocks the genre. The phone call where he claims not to be a hero and then phones the guy back to tell him he'd also like to kill him actually made me laugh out loud in the cinema although I'm not sure that was the reaction they were going for. Cruise is guaranteed money at the box office still but not necessarily to the same levels as ten years ago.
Jack Reacher is released in the UK on Friday 21st December 2012 and the trailer is embedded below:
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