One Among The Ruins

The first Jack Reacher movie was pretty good. I remember enjoying it. I may have to re-visit it to do a review. This movie however, is not good.

This movie really should be titled 'Jack Reacher: Women Ruin Everything'. Cobie Smulders i not a good actor. She has no role. She cannot pull off being masculine and she is not pretty enough to be feminine. She is the gross modern woman. Devoid of anything attractive and not fit for anything else. Every time she says 'my soldiers' I laughed sarcastically.

Tom Cruise never made sense for this role, either. He is not a tough guy. He did great in the Mission Impossible movies because it was a quasi bug man spycraft type movie. Making him overly muscular and forcing all these terrible one liners is just awful.

One female was not enough so they throw in another woman who may or may not be Reacher's fairly slutty daughter. You end up with three non alpha actors all trying to look and sound tough and intimidating.

Maybe it could have worked if they had a better script? I have no idea what the point of this movie was. Was this the best Reacher novel? I guarantee you no. It was one where the male character had to deal with a bunch of bitchy women. So that is the story Hollywood went with. It's just bad. It's not worth watching.

This movie was basically just an attempt by women to feel empowered. If you have any progressive female friends on Facebook you probably have seen them all hyped up over this 'women are the new men' crap. It is tired and I think even a lot of women are getting bored with it now.

Can you imagine going from the pretty blonde Rosamund Pike to Yucky Smulders?



Who thought that was a good idea?

After you look at the credits you see the writer of the first movie wrote 'The Usual Suspects' and they guy who wrote this movie also wrote the woeful disaster 'I Am Sam'.

That says about all you need to know.