Cruise produced this film and for years was trying to find an actor for it. He had hugh hackman lined up for the role but he declined. Cruise doesn't fit the description of the role obviously but he is a 3 time oscar nominee and is a great actor. Loved the film!
shareThat's the problem, they didn't get a "quality actor." They got Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise plays Tom Cruise in every action movie he is in.
Can you really watch this movie and say he wasn't that much different in it than he was in the MI movies? Knight and Day? Minority report?
Heck, in most of his movies he's jut playing Tom Cruise.
Totally agree.
Couldn't stop laughing to myself. "Put your shirt on!...What was I saying?" PAHleeze!
And she's a lawyer, but she has to constantly ask him "What should we do next?"
2 women (besides most of the initial murder victims, of course, because where would an action flic be without dead women as victims?) with speaking parts and one is a clueless lawyer and the other a slutty gamine. Meanwhile, Cruise struts around like a banter rooster, always the smartest one in the room, forced to suffer fools who would be lost without him. With the emotional range of an eggplant, he only just keeps a lid on his arrogant smirk. I wonder when the last time was he found himself surrounded by people NOT paid to feign worship?
Haha! Yeah, he definitely needed to put his shirt back on. Cruise has never has much of an upper body, and his fifty plus years were showing!
shareThat's how Jack Reacher acts in the books. Very cocky. Tom Cruise nailed it. Dolph Lundgren has the look more but glad he wasn't cast.
Clint back in the day would have been perfect.
And I wonder whose idea it was for all the women he came into contact with swooned over him? Remember Pike was nearly putty in his hands at the motel
shareI can say that Cruise acted different in this than MI. He gave a more subtle,restrained, more nuanced performance in Jack Reacher. He does not act the same in every movie. Watch Rain Man, Born on the forth of july, magnolia, eyes wide shut, the last samurai, interview with a vampire, tropic thunder, rock of ages. Different in all those movies.
shareI can say that Cruise acted different in this than MI. He gave a more subtle,restrained, more nuanced performance in Jack Reacher.
He does not act the same in every movie.
Tom Cruise plays Tom Cruise in every action movie he is in.
my bad, I misread. Anyway agree to disagree on Jack Reacher. Size aside I think Cruise nailed it.
shareI'm fan of the books. I liked this movie, but when Emerson says he looks for someone who can kill with one punch, motel lady directs him to check Reacher (dont remember his alias) and says "you'll see" or something like that.
shareGenius you are funny. Haven't watched many cruise movies with that opinion
shareThe same can be said of John Wayne. Wayne plays Wayne in nearly every one of his films.
Just because an actor does not have a diverse range of acting does not mean he isn't a great actor within his scope.
Cruise is a complete ass and a cultish idiot in his private life, but he is a damned good actor.
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Wayne changed a lot over the years and what he cr&pped was not only bigger than Cruise, but a way better actor than Cruise.
And, Wayne wasn't even that great. Cruise just really sucks.
He's got two looks, his "grinning like an idiot" look and his "thinking" look, where he looks like Joey from Friends smelling his own fart.
He's got two looks, his "grinning like an idiot" look and his "thinking" look,
She simply has the same problem Rachael Taylor, for instance, has - she can't act when she has to force an American accent. Taylor's boringly the same in all the American shows, but I recently saw Red Dog and found her great. Same can be said for Pike.
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