Jack Reacher Movie

KevinS

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Here's a link to the trailer for the Jack Reacher movie due out on December 21. It's based on One Shot (Reacher #9). My first thought was Tom Cruise? Really? Isn't he about a foot and a half too short to play Reacher?
 
Neat. Cruise has been playing taller men all his life but it doesn't seem to deter him. In the old days, Alan Ladd's leading ladies stood in a hole so he would look taller.
 
Reacher is 6' 5" tall (1.96m) with a 50-inch chest, and weighing between 210 and 250 pounds (100–115 kg). He has ice-blue eyes and dirty blond hair. He has very little body fat, and his muscular physique is completely natural (he reveals in Persuader, he has never been an exercise enthusiast.) He is exceptionally strong but is not a good runner.[2] Reacher's strength is combined with his savant intellect and military training, analyzing his environment and opponents at extremely high processing speeds. He mentally plans his fights using physics in a scientific calculating method, much like Sherlock Holmes. He knows how to break a man's neck with one hand (Bad Luck and Trouble) and kill a villain with a single punch to the head (Running Blind and 61 Hours) or chest (Worth Dying For). In a fight against a 7 foot, 400 lb steroid-using thug (Persuader), Reacher was able to lift his opponent into the air and drop him on his head.

Reacher has various scars, most notably a scar on his abdomen caused by a bombing in Lebanon.[3] He also has a 3-4 inch thin white scar that intersects his shrapnel scar that he received during a knife fight with Al-Qaeda operative Lila Hoth. Reacher mentions how the rough stitch work from his existing scar helped decrease the severity of his most recent attack. However, the cut did produce a deep, serious gash that led to Reacher passing out from blood loss.[4] He also has a scar on his chest from a .38 bullet,[5] a tear drop burn scar from close range gunshot that crossed his chest at point blank range,[6] and one on his arm where his brother struck him with a chisel in his youth.[7]
 
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