My favourite film of this year was ‘Jack Reacher’. Jack is played by Tom Cruise in this fantastic adventure film. 

It follows Toms’ character solving a crime as a ‘friend’ of his gets in trouble and gets framed by a professional assassin. Through-out the film there’s multiple fights, car chases, explosions and action shots (in a typical Tom Cruise fashion). The plot is thickened by the fact that Jack is actually a ghost! Rather than him being dead, this term actually means that there’s no records of anything he does. This implies he’s on the run from someone or something and therefore has to keep his head down. 

As the continues it shows Jack getting into more and more trouble which appeals to the audience as it makes them feel on edge and therefore creates a sense intrigue. One of the best parts in the film comes from around the middle of the movie. The scene starts by Jack arriving at the scene of a crime and as he’s not ‘friends’ with the police force, as they happen to be there too as they are investigating the crime, they end up chasing Jack and causing an epic car chase around the dark streets of Pittsburgh.

This scene ends with jack tricking the police that he’s still in the car which he used in the chase, but it turns out that he jumps out and lets the car roll away. This makes the police continue to follow the car and there just so happens to be a bus stop where Jack jumps out from. He walks over to the crowd of people waiting for the bus but they seem to be so nice and help him hide as they stand around him and even one of them gives him their hat to help hide his identity. This scene was well thought out with all the different camera shots and the quick paced camera angles to help give it an edgy sense and keeps the audience on the edge of their seats as they watch it. As I just mentioned about the ending of the scene, the way the director wanted that to end is a great way and slightly comical way of finishing a good section. This is because in typical Tom Cruise fashion everything is ‘up in the air’ and to help end it the scene whether he gets away or gets captured, as a way of losing the police it is very inventive yet simple as not many people would’ve thought of that in order to keep the story going and for the good guy to get away.