Another typical Tom Cruise movie
which offers nothing exciting or new and the big fan in feels disappointed yet
again, I guess this as per me is the lousiest Tom Cruise movie in last couple
of years. Right from the very first scene, to his introduction to the better
than average finale – it always gives me that “been there done that” feel. As
we have seen him in a dozen or more movies – he plays another ghost character, which
can never be found, chased, beaten, get caught, shot, unless he himself wants
it. Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) is an X US Army Office and a drifter, who comes
to investigate the case of a US Army Sniper who one fine day goes on a shooting
spree and kills 5 innocent people. He had a hunch that there is something
behind the shooting innocent people than what it looks like and what he
uncovers is supposed to thrill you but unfortunately in the end it makes you
feel “Oh yeah, so that was that, Okies” Although it has everything like a
conspiracy theory, investigation, a couple of idiotic chases, double crosses
etc. Even Richard Jenkins, Eye candy Rosamund Pike and a brief role by Robert
Duvall couldn’t save this one for me. I was surprised to see why in the world
he did this movie which has almost the same stuff and nothing new to offer?
Does he even cares about the script or the story as where it is going? And the
shocking thing is – look at the box office figures – even then the movies makes
a big amount of money, guess his fan base is too loyal to him and ends up
checking all his movies even if they have hardly anything to offer. I missed it
because it didn’t last more than a week in our nearby multiplex and the numbers
of shows too were too less to accommodate my time schedule, but I am now glad
that I missed it. Barring the half hour in the very end which kind of
compensates for the lousy story there is nothing to look forward here and this
one definitely doesn’t have anything to go for a multiple viewing. Give it a
miss if you haven’t seen it – I would rather pick up one of the MI series again
and enjoy it.
No comments:
Post a Comment