Reacher Feature: In Jack Reacher, Our Hero Shrinks to Fit the
Silver Screen  Cruise in Jack Reacher.  Cruise in Jack Reacher.
Based on one in a series of numbing beach paperbacks (17 in all)
by Lee Child about a mysterious assassin named Jack Reacher,
this film is deader than the corpses that litter the screen.
Pick up one of these time-wasters at any airport bookstall and
you will inevitably read a description of this cold-blooded
wielder-of-weapons-of-mass-destruction as blonde, blue-eyed,
six-foot-five—and built like The Incredible Hulk. In Jack
Reacher, he is played by Tom Cruise, who is a 50-year-old
testament to the miracles of Botox but in no way resembles Jack
Reacher. Welcome to the movies.  On a gray morning in
Pittsburgh, five people are randomly mowed down by a wacko
soldier from the war in Iraq, a skilled sniper with a carefully
trained military history. Quickly apprehended, dragged into
custody and grilled extensively, the suspect yields nothing
except a weird note on which he scribbles: “Get J