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Besides being a mind teaser, "Jack Reacher" offers the muscular thrills of a
'70s action flick, including fight scenes that mercifully aren't over-edited messes and a thrilling, prolonged car chase through the streets of downtown Pittsburgh, with the grinding and screeching providing its own rhythmic soundtrack. Cruise dials down the megawatt charisma and instead relies on a no-nonsense world-weariness which has its own appeal. He also has a dryly funny give-and-take with Robert Duvall, his "Days of Thunder" co-star, as the gun range owner who becomes Reacher's ally. Disappointingly, though, Werner Herzog is a bit of a stereotypical villain as a mastermind named The Zec; he's never really fleshed out enough to seem truly frightening, but at least he sounds right for the part. Even when delivering voiceover about subject matter he's excited about in his own films, like the documentary "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," it's as if he's threatening us with world domination. "Jack Reacher," a Paramount Pictures release, is rated PG-13 for violence, language and some drug material. Running time: 130 minutes. Three stars out of four. ___ Motion Picture Association of America rating definition for PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
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