Movie Review: ‘Jack Reacher’

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

★★---A month ago, the biggest controversy about Christopher McQuarrie’s “Jack Reacher” was whether Tom Cruise could appropriately portray the massively built, 6-foot 5-inch hero imagined by author Lee Child. Today, the movie has been impacted more significantly by timing. Right now, it’s hard to consider even a popcorn flick escapist entertainment when it opens with a deadly sniper attack. But if we’re judging the picture on its own terms, it succeeds pretty well — and almost solely because of Cruise in the lead. [link]