Jack Reacher won’t change any lives and is not imbued with deep transcendental meaning, but Jack Reacher is a great impossible white man action movie starring one of the well-established impossible white man actors, Tom Cruise. Jack Reacher is also a good story-the conspiracy is relatively easy to follow while still being intricate enough to create suspense. The cast is solid: Richard Jenkins, David Oyelowo, Robert Duvall and Rosamund Pike. Extra points awarded for casting Werner Herzog, whom I love. Jai Courtney seems like a poor man’s Michael Rosenbaum, but Courtney gets all the work albeit the same role. The fight scenes are excellent-fun when they need to be, not when they aren’t. I highly recommend Jack Reacher and would welcome a sequel, but I have not read the books.