Yeah, I imagine several have Reached to Jack him.

Jack Reacher: 6'5" 250lbs, blond hair. Ice blue eyes.

and then you get Tommy Cruise.

gladly skipping this one

I started to watch the trailer until I saw him taking off a military uniform. And that's when I recognized the name.

Are you kidding me?!?? I can't watch the rest of this trailer. If I do I will not be able to read any more of the books; they'll be ruined for me forever.

And while the books aren't great works of literature, they are great vacation books. I don't have to think too much about them and they're pretty entertaining (even if tedious during the fight sequences) and help to pass the time marvelously well.

Fucking Cruise.

i was just thinking if Tom Cruise were a huge stud muffin then well, the books rock, so why not? ... then all of you said the same thing ... yep, lame .. laughably so.

The music is "Young Men Dead" by the Black Angels. An awesome tune off a great album. The trailer looks like crap.

Did anyone say Jack Reacharound yet?

holy fucking mother of xenu.

That sounds just like the music that plays behind his Scientology video.

Yeah, that sucks. What 3 said. Perfect vacation read, and there always seems to be a new one in the airport bookstore when I'm flying out.
Besides the physical description @2 gave, he's very specifically a drifter, and owns nothing. Not even a change of clothes. Especially not a muscle car and leather jacket.

One man... Only one man can beat the thetans out of you this summer.

I extend my sympathies to the fans of the book series (which I'd never heard of). It does suck to have the big movie version of the book you love so totally drop the ball.

However, I wouldn't say that the trailer is that awful. It's just boring and forgettable. It looks like just another dumb action movie nobody will remember.

Agree with what everyone else says: best page-turner books ever, worst casting choice ever.

I love these books, I get a new one every time I visit my parents, and I finish it before returning Sunday night. Tom should never play Reacher, and Childs is making so much cash off of this that he is actually saying that he wanted Cruise to play him since before he sold the movie rights. cough cough -bullshit- cough. @1+1

Pardon, @2+1

that looks FUCKING AWESOME!

Nope, this is crap on Tom Cruise because he is just about the worst possible choice for this character imaginable.
One day I will feed Lee several tall drinks and then ask him just why he's being so gung-ho about this.

@19
I don’t give a whit about his marriages; I just think he’s a piss-poor actor and physically inappropriate for this role.

And though the books were written as if Lee was planning the screenplay as he wrote (a la Crichton), I don’t think I’d watch a movie based on the books anyway.

What happened to the good years when he didn't make any movies and no one talked about him? I miss those times.

Thanks for the synopsis, Paul! Way to take one for the team as I refuse to watch this.

I made it 53 seconds in and couldn't take any more. That was just awful.

I actually joined the TC camp after seeing Rock of Ages. His portrayal of the Bret Michaels/Axl Rose (Stacee Jaxx) inspired lead singer was well worth the price of a ticket. The look and pace and musical execution were also good.

He has talent, not sure where all the haters come from.

Although I am in the middle of watching MI3 and that pretty much plods but not due to him but lagging support cast and a plot laden with too much interpersonal baggage. Let the guy blow up stuff!

He(*) already ruined the Mission Impossible series. Why not another?

(*) Or more specifically the producers, who most likely caved to Cruise's superstar demands to make him the sole focus.

See the thing about Tom Cruise is that of course everyone hates him.

Guys hate him because he's 50 and young women still like him.

Gays hate him because he's not gay.

Movie critics hate him because he doesn't do "buddy movies" (see above; also see Myra Breckenridge).

Overall of course he turned to Scientology because no current power bloc is going to support him. He won't do the Social Agenda hidden as cartoons for Disney. He won't do buddy movies where all the females die and two guys run off together (did I say that already)?

In fact Tom Cruise is an open challenge to the Silent Agenda about how mature males are supposed to behave in society. We are not supposed to be serious or sexual. We're supposed to be fun loving clowns or buffoons like Kevin James. If we are serious, the we're psychopaths like Mel Gibson. We're not supposed to "get the girl" any more and if we do she'll be sure to kickbox our ass along the way. Even James Bond has been gelded into a bisexual cuckolded fop.

The only reason they've let Cruise live this long is that he's a 5 foot 7 runt...hence still not a total threat.

@28 How do you explain George Clooney?

@29

I believe the title is Ocean's "Eleven".

It is a buddy movie with 11/12/13 dudes.

And Julia Roberts mops the floor with him.

At least he's still pretty. I wonder how many facelifts he's had?

@28 magnolia yes...born on the fourth of july..well.. ok.. EVERYthing else ? you gotta be kidding me
besides the only straight i might wish were gay is d'angelo..yum.

I'd see it if it was jason Statham.

I still find it incredible they cast Cruise as Reacher. At least that makes the decision about whether to see the movie an easy one...

I have always imagined Reacher as Ed Harris. Now, that would have been a movie I would see.

Tom Cruise as James Bond? You can't unthink it. They can work Risky Business, Cocktail and Top Gun into the Bond back story.

@28 - The reason so many people dislike Tom Cruise is because he isn't even human anymore. Not really. He's Tom Cruise, Inc. Maybe some of that is because of his own success. He can't go out and socialize like a human would and sometimes, as we've seen, his reactions reflect this isolation. Additionally, you can be an unlikable person and do well in movies if you don't go overboard on the asshole bit and you have the acting chops which gives you a pass on artistic temperament - up to a point, of course. You can't be cruel and you can't be a criminal. Tom needed a decent life coach (to be sure) and adviser early in his career. Yes, he hit the financial jackpot (I mean...owning your own jumbo jet or two), but things would have worked out much better for him in the professional achievement department and in the minds of his peers and public if he'd been a little more open to being an actor instead of determined to be a star. He should have taken a few lessons from Brad Pitt.

I forgot how annoying his voice is.

And also, buddy movies, @28? I must have missed those reviews wherein critics love buddy movies. I'll try harder to keep up. I'm also interested to hear more about your insights into the tastes of young women. I was quite certain that no female under the age of 35 has been remotely interested in Tom for over a decade, but you've surely got a better understanding of our nation's young people than I do.

@33 - Bingo.

Let's see what we have here. 60s muscle car? Check
Hot babe in her undies? Check
Big fight scene where the bad guys conveniently come at him one at a time? Check.

@28, James Bond is a 'bisexual cuckolded fop'? Are we looking at the same Daniel Craig? Because I am the gayest woman who ever gayed, and I would totally flip for that hot, masculine man.

I engineered the first book's audio session way back in the 90s and my co-workers did the mastering. We used Jack Reacher as an in-joke like "oh yeah, I'm gonna Jack Reacher your ass" or "Jack Reacher wouldn't take this bullshit." Tom Cruise is not who I pictured for this role or am I the one who needs an audit?

Ug, the music is great in it's full six minutes of glory (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvKjpGP6P…). The lyrics and their delivery seem very ambiguous about the whole "exceptionally clean "gritty" people committing nifty acts of brutality " vibe of the trailer. It's more "stoned senseless and watching the History Channel".

YOUNG MEN DEAD

Fire for the hills pick up your feet and lets go.
Head for the hills pick up steel on your way.
And when you find a piece of them in your site,
fire at will, dont you waste no time.

Another thought of the unaware,
addiction in disguise.

With a drop of blood,
you will take them out, for me.

Fire from the hills pick up speed and lets go.
Fire for real, yeah shoot to kill with no aim.
Head for the hills yes eyes on the camp fire glow.
Creep up there like a white mink hiding n snow.

And outta black a figure forms a soldier in the sky.
With a drop of love,trying to set you free.

Run for the hills, pick up your feet and lets go.
We did our jobs, pick up speed now lets move.
The trees cant grow without the sun in their eyes.
And we can't live if we're too afriad to die.

Hold on tight, yes hold on tight you're too slow.
Fire at the breeze that blows these thoughts through our mind.
Hire only thieves to steal the thoughts from our heads.

@33 - Don't tease me like that. Now I shall lament the movie that might have been.