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)

OBLIVION (2013)

"Dream of us."

Films like OBLIVION make me wish I was a better writer.

In the year 2077, Earth is all messed up.  Sixty years earlier an alien force called Scavs invaded Earth.  Humans fought back as best they could, but were eventually forced to use nuclear weapons and in doing so they won the war but destroyed the entire planet.  Even the Moon got blown up!  Now 60 years later the majority of humans live on Titan or on a massive space station orbiting Earth called Tet.  On Earth itself are two humans: Tom Cruise and partner/lover Andrea Riseborough.  They live at the top of a super tall tower.  Tom repairs drones that are used to protect massive power stations (that are using the ocean to create fusion power) from a few remaining Scav bandits.  The truly weird thing is neither Tom nor Andrea have any memories other than fixing these drones for the last five years.  The excuse is that their memories were wiped for security reason, but yet Tom sometimes has haunting glimpses of a life that couldn't possibly be real.

I really, really liked this film and I would love to talk about OBLIVION more...the visuals, the story, the awesome score...but I think that the less you know about it the better.  Just go into it blind and enjoy the discovery. It actually gets even better with repeat viewings...I've watched it 7 times now.  Highly recommended.

Not part of the review, but I would absolutely love to play a video game version of OBLIVION and to see a prequel to this film also.