Jack Reacher: Looks like Mission:Impossible

It looks like Mission: Impossible though it is not. Tom Cruise cannot stop being the same cool guy he is as Ethan Hunt, and of course here he is acting all alone. Think of this movie as a hybrid which takes elements of Mission: Impossible, Sherlock Holmes and Rambo... quite loosely.
It all begins with a sniper shooting five people from a building across a river in plain daylight. The Police arrives and due to the clues they find they figure opur the killer is some guy named Barr who is a sniper but not the sniper who shot those people (so the audience gets to know they have the wrong guy). In order to help, Barr demands Jack Reacher to be found. Jack Reacher is a character who cannot be found unless he wants to and that´s what he does. Befriended and helped by Helen Rodin (the very sexy Rosamund Pike), who just like Reacher suspects Barr is innocent, Jack will dig deeper and deeper just to be found that there is a lot more to the deaths of those five people than it meets the eye.T here are a lot of people involved at all levels and as he uncovers this mystery his life and Helen's will be in danger more often than not.
If you like action movies you won't be disappointed, if you like car chases you will find here one of the best, if you like mysteries then this movie also offers that. Don't expect much from the Reacher character since it is predictable and very linear. I'd say Pike as Helen does a much better job and Robert Duvall's appearance at the end  makes up for all the rest (HE IS a real actor). The story is not bad and the visual aspect is only right. I felt that a better soundtrack would have helped this movie a lot more.
Three stars out of five for this one.

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