Jack Reacher Movie Trailer

Posted by Charmaine Blake on Nov 29th, 2012 in Action Adventure, Drama, Featured Articles, Mystery, Suspense | 0 comments

Jack Reacher: A New Action Movie Starring Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise is back with a new action film this December with Jack Reacher. This new movie is an adaptation of Lee Child’s 2005 novel entitled One Shot. Just a year after the action-packed Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Tom Cruise takes on the character of Jack Reacher, a homicide investigator who is trying to uncover the case which involves a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. Jack Reacher is directed by Christopher McQuarrie and also stars Rosamund Pike and Richard Jenkins. Let’s check out the early buzz for Jack Reacher below:

“An Early Look At Jack Reacher

Lee Child has published seventeen novels with lead character Jack Reacher, and this December one of them will finally be hitting the big screen. Reacher was a military policeman once upon a time, but just because he no longer carries a badge doesn’t mean he’s forgotten wrong from right. Now he wanders the nation from one state to the next, and like Bruce Banner and Sam Beckett before him he helps those unable to help themselves. “One Shot” (renamed simply Jack Reacher for the movie) is the ninth book in the series and sees him investigating a mass shooting in Middle America and the man arrested for the crime.

Reacher has some very specific characteristics, mostly focused on his size, that should have realistically precluded any actor under 6’3″ from playing him onscreen. Hollywood though is a magical place where respect for the written word isn’t always a priority, so Tom Cruise was cast in the role. Cruise, as we all know, stands 3’7″ which led to a fair amount of bitching and moaning online about his giant ego in a tiny body ruining such a kick-ass literary character.

But books and movies are two different mediums, and changes big and small are inevitable when adapting between them meaning the resulting films should be judged on their own merits. We got a glimpse of those merits with the first teaser back in July, but today the full trailer has dropped offering us a look at the story, writer/director Christopher McQuarrie‘s sense of tone and best of all…an evil Werner Herzog. Check it out after the break and let us know what you think.

I won’t lie. I kind of love it.

From Reacher’s intro to the music driving the trailer it just looks and sounds like a ton of fun. McQuarrie looks to have kept the tone and personality of Child’s books (and of his own The Usual Suspects and under-seen The Way of the Gun), and he’s attracted a strong supporting cast around Cruise as well. Robert Duvall, Richard Jenkins and David Oyelowo are never less than great, and Rosamund Pike is named after a fish. So that’s cool too.

And ending the trailer with a quiet, twenty-second scene instead of a big action beat or dialogue quip is a nice move.”

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Jack Reacher is scheduled to be released in cinemas on December 21st 2012.

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Charmaine Blake loves movies, musical theater listening to music and taking pictures of anything that she finds interesting. She is a voracious reader and writer, and enjoys her time writing for New Movie Launches. Charmaine loves spending time with her pets and currently has a Siberian Husky, a toy poodle and a cat.