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Jack Reacher (2012)
Thrilling investigation story with realistic conflicts, but too many killings
I seldom read detective stories or watch such films because I often get bored with it very quickly. My teenage TV diet consisted of too many detective stories that I began to abhor it.
Before watching this film, I have never heard of Jack Reacher, but I knew that the story was a based on a theme of police investigation.
Jack Reacher was a thoroughly refreshing unexpected story. Although some clichés were used, I never felt it was clichéd.
This film kept me on the edge of my seat, and wanting to find out what was the ending. 10/10... Tom Cruise's intensity of expression, and the excellent cinematography, all made this a thoroughly engaging experience. Extremely rare to find such a great character-driven movie today. Not special-effects driven with mindless plots.
The one thing I didn't accept was too many killings. That was not realistic. But one can argue that not killing the bad guys will be the clichéd moralistic view.
Al-too-bi: Riteon too beiseu (2012)
terrible rip-off of Top Gun and Behind Enemy Lines
The movie was terrible. I expected much more. The planes were all CGI and not believable. I hate the planes. The script was very poor. The acting was good, but the actors and actresses talents' were wasted by poor predictable script with superficial treatment about the soul of flying. I ran my player at 4X to 10X speed to skip the plastic human relationships. Characters don't make sense to me. Pilots were treated like stupid people. Same as mechanics. No dignity for pilots and mechanics. This movie didn't do justice to them. What I want is serious piloting and commanders showing tactical thought, excellent mechanical understanding of aircraft, excellent weapons systems mix between missiles and dogfights, with clear plausible combat scenarios.