JACK REACHER (2012)

Like the love child of THE BOURNE IDENTITY and "Highway to Heaven", Jack Reacher is a tough as nails drifter with an almost angelic presence and strong sense of justice.  And if you don't like his sense of justice then he'll just beat or kill it into you.  After an ex-military dude is arrested for a sniper massacre, he's beaten into a coma thanks to some crooked cops, but not before he asks for Jack Reacher.  Preacher, I mean, Reacher shows up and the evidence looks pretty damning, but that doesn't mean anything when you have justice on your side!

Despite the cheesiness of the all knowing, super tough guy character I enjoyed JACK REACHER.  The fight scenes were awesome and well filmed, Werner Herzog played a interesting bad guy, the pace was quick, good acting by everybody and the angelic stuff was funny enough that it made you giggle but not roll your eyes.  Worth a watch.

Part 2 - Jack Reacher:Never Go Back (2016)

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978)

Pretty straightforward retelling of the 1956 film, except this time instead of a small town, it's San Francisco.  Health inspector Donald Sutherland's co-worker tells him that her boyfriend is acting distant.  He doesn't think much of it until he starts noticing random people in his life acting distant.  Eventually he uncovers a plot by an aliens to take over humanity using seed pods to duplicate people.

Maybe back in the 70's this movie was exciting, but I was underwhelmed.  There's just not a lot going on.  At first, Sutherland kinda senses something fishy going on, but then when shit finally pops off he just runs around, hides in his house then runs around some more.  He never really tries to escape the city or fight the aliens and then the movie is over.  Maybe I'm jaded by modern blockbusters, but I was just hoping for more.  Not a bad film, just kinda blah.  That scream that Sutherland does though is legendary!

Original - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Reboot 1 - Body Snatchers (1993)
Reboot 2 - The Invasion (2007)