Mass murder in the first person - can you think of a better stage for the straps detective? I do not care what clues on the killer is calculated through sixteen hours - he is a veteran of the war in Iraq - that the case is almost complete and it remains only to choose between two evils. After all, it's a movie! Appears elusive hero invisible front, and, sorry, sub-indent law - why him some limits? - Imposes its own order on the mind and justice. The familiar image? Again, do not care! Tom Cruise, breaking his hands and feet fingers caulking eyes - for such a spectacle could be forgiven for anything and anyone.
Fans can blame McQuarrie for a long time that it strongly in his own image presented Reacher - primarily reduced it to one and a half times the size - and Cruise for what it is, indulging the director, has agreed to play this way. But let's be honest: such a hero - that he himself denied - with the past and not the present, does not depend on the size. "The main thing that suit sitting" - and face a la "I know more than all of you put together, ha-ha" is not going away. The rest will follow.
"Jack Reacher" McQuarrie thriller is just a formality. Disentangling the voltage generated by the case looks more like a tribute to the tradition, rather than a real tool to influence the oculomotor nerve. And then somehow it would be quite improper brazen and shameless "score" on the case, the price of the content of strongly rooted in shape. Not typical. And all because from the very beginning of the image appears on the screen, implying a complete invincibility. This, obviously, is something out of the field of psychology - when the ex-soldier playing with the authorities as much of the United States into a living ghost, inspires respect and awe at the subconscious level. So, roughly speaking, the whole picture can be described in one simple word - comfort.
The fact that the main character personally punish all by injection of lead in the frontal area - obviously we know and do not cause problems. McQuarrie is obviously well aware of when getting started, so once broke up with delusions do is original, that all of the non-trivial pootvisali jaw moves. Not to mention the fact that the upcoming film was published seven years ago, and God-knows-how-times-and by whom-and reread the book. So, having gone the way of least resistance, he just took, and all the detail, almost to the canons, painted and took off. So thoroughly that, when the two-hour timekeeping difficult to think of even one extra scene. All without a hitch.
So it looks. Including all the random victim, bases, chases and so on - all of this is presented as a matter of course. Well, who does not happen? Especially in the situation Reacher, with his then-busy life, full of adventure for all the points of support. The main thing here - not an emotional response (which is almost none), and enjoy the process itself, pure entertainment. Watch as everything goes to hell under the tail as a part-time detective samostiynogo repeatedly pulls out all the back and in the process a little humor with or without, simultaneously breaking the enemy and firing the excess parts of the body - watch this two o'clock in a row is not a burden and a joy.
In summary, the whole movie is tied to the main character - a rare case where the imposition of his name in the title is entirely justified by the plot. He is the alpha and omega, the navel of the films, guest-turned-host - at the time to set things right. Who comes and silently corrects all to leave at the end, having beaten dozens of times in various guises, from Kurosawa's bodyguard - if not sooner. Here is mixed again is not new, but effective way of supervisory outrageously Detective Intelligence - sort of a Sherlock Holmes. It turns nuclear mixture.
Needless to say that Cruz has brought to the resulting composite type rabid dose of its own charm? He is just not enough bike (and was not allowed to write of "Rock of Ages") - it is, as always, knows how to show off, and funny, and scary, and sometimes the time interval between such performances is committed to a minimum. Back in the trailer to prevent, say, the last two are always running away, so I work here quite a bit - he behaves that way for the entire tape. Hitting the first insight, and then the fist half-jokingly flirting with the heroine Rosamund Pike - but no kiss! - Is worn on the ribbon on location to location, from person to person like a cold fury, embodying a model of a free man. In short, the beauty - the envy of all.
Another beauty in the film - action scenes. First, for once, it is impossible not to mention a separate sound engineer - so his work is evident. Fruity - almost juicy - the crunch of bones, followed by shouts and the sound of broken glass and tile - it is warm. This noise comes the boom in the final shootout, so the feeling of being together with the characters in his career only intensified. No music - just deafening sound of gunfire, slender and disorderly wafting everywhere, accompanied by occasional patches of light spotlights and flashes of dazzling shafts. Finally, the action is not only pleasant to watch, but no less enjoyable to listen to. And second, do the fights and skirmishes delivered cool. Feast for the eyes - with all the incredible ability and luck Reacher, it looks not only beautiful, but also realistic. The eye-catching.
Other characters only reinforce the feeling of comfort that envelops when watching the film - that stubborn Attorney Richard Jenkins that savvy detective David Oyelouo that the executive singer Jay Courtney. But the most distinguished Robert Duvall and Werner Herzog - "The Old Guard", two modest titanium two continents.
The first here - a retired Marine who, appearing only in the middle film in the remaining time catching up by leaps and bounds. Impersonation is strictly mentor, loyal party members and casual, but sincere stranger in one. The second - a villain with no history whose life is said by the mouth so sparingly, so that it is easier to ask him maiming of limbs - are one of its kind say much more. Repellent, without kith or kin, with apparently enviable past, the only "but" is - the way he behaves at the end: the final mikromonolog frankly does not fit well into the new way of survivalist.
"Jack Reacher" makes a wonderful impression. At first it seems like just watched an episode of some detective mini-series, in which the pilot and forgot to remove the final series, and even the duration of two hours. Then in the head one by one come up which have become classic images from decades past - just right to sound the alarm on the theme of "It". Until finally, you start to remember the movie with some warmth, like a native - so settle in memory only your favorite, or just atmospheric paintings. And you know that sooner or later, will still have to carry the film into one of these categories. So it only remains to decide which it is - everyone for themselves.
