![]() Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1) by Lee Child . Because apparently the list I got this book off of sucked. Not to be deterred, though, I tried another author! I shall try this Killing Floor novel! Lee Child’s books usually concentrate on the strategic genius of Jack Reacher, who has long since earned his prominent place in the pantheon of cool. Download the Jack Reacher series and transfer the audio books to your iPod or MP3 player. Get the Audible Audio Editions of the Jack Reacher series from the Audible. ![]() Nay, he travels ever onward. Wherever there. Shouting and screaming. I was dizzy and panting. I had taken a battering. The sirens were deafening. I splashed water on my face. The sunglasses were gone. Jack Reacher is a walking, talking, 6’5” prescription-strength laxative guaranteed to cause scumbags to soil their skivvies. As hardboiled protagonists go, this. This is our third time seeing this movie and our first sing a long! Our daughter loved it and we loved watching her. It was adorable hearing all those little voices. Jack Reacher, as played by Tom Cruise, appearing in the theatrical poster of the 2012 film Jack Reacher. Never Go Back has 36,245 ratings and 3,194 reviews. Rosemary said: Where is Jack Reacher? Who is this imposter?I am a huge Lee Child / Jack Reacher fan. Must have fallen off. I know, friends. Hubble was a financial guy. Probably had a big white place on a big lot. A square lot covering four acres was about a hundred and forty yards on a side. Homes on the left and the right of the street put number twenty- five about twelve lots from town. About a mile, maybe. It gets especially funny when characters other than Reacher start talking in the same goddamn way. Jack Reacher, ex- army. ![]() Is the entire town suffering from some sort of Incredibly- Short- Sentence- Itis? But back to our list. Of course we also have the classicplot involving graphically- murdered people: I. I was left wondering if it was REALLY necessary, but I recognize I. Monica, do not roll your eyes at the fact that aspects of the plot make no sense at all (Why. Monica, just embrace it for what it is. There were, of course a few unanswered questions that I could not quite wrap my head around. Why would anyone fire Reacher? This is a West- Point- graduated military policeman who can kill a person fifty different ways with a pencil; a man who can, while leaping off a balcony into a gasoline- fueled warehouse fire to face off against a shotgun- armed maniac, can calculate that his bullet would ? This is a long section but I feel it. Spent years picking up deserters for the army. You had no credit cards, no driver. You were stuck with the bus. Then I put myself in your shoes, psychologically. You were terrified for your family. You were circling Margrave. Not too close, not too far. Give people a free choice, they always go counterclockwise. All I had to do was to count the days and study the map and predict the hop you. I figure Monday you were in Birmingham, Alabama. Tuesday was Montgomery, Wednesday was Columbus. I had a problem with Thursday. I gambled on Macon, but I thought it was maybe too close to Margrave. So Friday morning you came out here to Augusta. My other big gamble was you stayed here two nights. The fifth name was the same as the first name, right? You told me about visiting the Dakota building and going to Liverpool in England. So the first night, you were at some hotel desk and you signed Paul Lennon, right? People usually stick with their own first name. So you were Paul Lennon. Tuesday, you were Paul Mc. Cartney. Wednesday, you were Paul Harrison. Thursday, you were Paul Starr. Friday, in Augusta, you started over with Paul Lennon, right? How the hell did you know where to look? Guy like you walks back the way he. Then you got panicky and dived off the main drag a block or two. So I had a pretty small target area. You were in number fifteen. This sort of Braining, from the man who took the entire novel to figure out that you could (view spoiler)! All that being said. It was still a pretty fun book. Three stars, six buckets of testosterone, and one corpse nailed to a wall. Even Roberto Clemente rarely went five for six, so the shooter had to have some skills. Because the Pirates can ill afford to lose what. A suspect named Barr . The case against him is so strong that even Marcia Clark could win it. The accused man, who is a former military sniper, refuses to talk to the cops. Instead, he writes the name of Jack Reacher on the DA. A former highly- decorated military police officer and West Point grad, Reacher is a modern knight- errant who lives completely off the grid. Unlike knights of old, he travels by Greyhound bus rather than a magnificent steed, probably because the inside of a bus is at least marginally cleaner than your average stable. Reacher is a character created by British author Jim Grant, writing as Lee Child. As envisioned by Child, Reacher has few possessions and no roots. He wanders from town to town with nothing more than the clothes on his back, some cash, a well- used travel toothbrush and maybe a couple of jumbo Trojans. At 6. On his way from somewhere to nowhere, Reacher rights wrongs, executes bad guys and gets laid. In Hollywood, ten inches only matters in porn. But back to the plot. The Pittsburgh DA and the po- po reach out for Reacher but they can. However, unknown to the Pittsburgh authorities, Reacher, who has just finished boffing a nubile nymphet in a cheap motel room somewhere in America, sees the news report on TV and hops the first Trailways bus to the City of Bridges. Helen Rodin, Barr. Or that the chick is still working through a serious Electra complex? Okay, I kinda extrapolated the last part. In fact, he hates Barr. He also finds time to go all Chuck Norris on five, count . Having witnessed a bar fight or two from uncomfortably close distances, I can testify that the only talking points just before and during a five- on- one beatdown involves, at most, a couple of guttural, unprintable Anglo- Saxon epithets. Followed immediately by the five guys jumping on the one guy and stomping him about the head until the wax runs out of his ears. Cruise did his own driving in the scene, and he did his part well. However, the chase owed more to . In “Bullitt,” the cars flew up, over and down the hills and humps of the streets of San Francisco. In TFC, William Friedkin wove the chase scene through a maze of New York traffic and under its elevated trains, leaving paint on just about every girder and parked car in town. Jack Reacher drives through back alleys that have all the character and interest of a dorm room at Bob Jones University. In a place known as the City of Bridges, the chase scene must be considered a lost opportunity. The last signature moment comes when Reacher gets the drop on a kidnapper, only to toss away his weapon so the bad guy can kick his ass a little. Does the cheerleader really go into the basement when she hears something down there in the dark? No, she gets out of the house and calls the college football team that she? No, they get a room at a motel, preferably in another time zone. Does Reacher really toss away his gun so he can have the pleasure of busting up the bad guy with his bare knuckles while the kidnap victim simpers twenty- five feet away with a Glock 1. So there are some plot elements that don. Reacher is taciturn, so playing Reacher doesn. Cruise also carries out his part of the bargain by looking as fit as a smallish 5. Oprah. Cruise is at his best when he can flash a bit of wry insouciance, like he did while playing Lt. Especially since Cruise does that touch of humor thing better than anyone else. But no. In an effort to seem more menacing than his physical presence can carry off, Cruise has made Reacher a bit too stoic. He never once comes on to Helen, even when she threatens to bust out of her semi- revealing tops and turn the movie into Twin Peaks. Had we not seen Reacher in the motel room with the pretty young thing, we. Alas, while the Reacher books usually have a touch of romance, this movie has none, and Cruise and Pike have exactly zero chemistry. Reacher. The crusty ex- Marine has become a predictable Hollywood clich. Still, Duvall is quirky, funny and tough in the part. He brings out the best of Cruise. And Russian villains? He brings out the worst of Reacher. Director and co- writer Christopher Mc. Quarrie keeps the action moving along, while Cruise is Cruise. There were fine supporting performances by a Gen. Glock 1. 7, a Colt M1. A1 and an M4. A1. There were also a special appearances by a SIG P5. But no matter how it was outfitted by the wardrobe department, the M1. A functioned flawlessly, proved perfectly accurate and never demanded its own trailer. Taking everything into account, . The film only made about $1. The sniping scenes — and there are several — are tight. The snipers all shoot Springfield Armory M1. A. I mean, as evil as Diane Feinstein says. Reliability * * *The book was better. Okay, except for Charleton Heston. Strong turns by Werner Herzog as the reptilian Russian villain, and Robert Duvall as the OFWG who owns a gun range, earn the film an extra . Who says that OFWGs can.
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