"Jack Reacher" (2012) - Director-Writer Christopher McQuarrie's Action Thriller Starring Tom Cruise

[DonRocks]

I feel like I just ate an entire box of Chips Ahoy! cookies. I am so ashamed that I have now watched - and enjoyed - "Jack Reacher," the Tom Cruise action thriller from 2012, but so I did.

Sometimes, multiple external factors converge to make you want nothing but the cheapest, most escapist brand of diversion, and such was it with me, and the previews for the Reacher sequel which just came out were enough to reel me in for the most tawdry brand of entertainment there is. 

And I enjoyed it.

This was my beach book, my Robert Ludlum, my Twilight Zone without the historical significance. 

I'd enter a spoiler alert, except there's nothing to spoil, any more than me taking pictures of the Domino's pizza that arrived, twenty minutes into the film.

And I'm kidding about the pizza.

But the movie was perfect within its genre, and I'm actually looking forward to the sequel.

[Al Dente]

Man, next thing you know you'll be eating Miracle Whip!