svalbard | Jai Courtney (185) (Jack Reacher)

This looked absolutely terrible in the trailers, but then was... actually surprisingly good?? I hate that I am now that person who is, of all things, DEFENDING JACK REACHER THE FILM, but I was impressed by a) that tense, nail-biting, horrifying opening scene, b) revisiting said scene later MADE ME CRY, c) their use of background music (more specifically: the lack thereof during action scenes where you'd normally expect Generic Pulse-Pounding Music), d) how it was more like a quiet legal sleuthing mystery rather than a balls-to-the-walls action flick, which is how I felt it was (erroneously) marketed, e) the barebones fight scene climax in which, you know what, a full-on punch to the face DOES deck you to the ground & you can't just keep taking those forever and ever and ever, and f) Jai.

Also, Tom Cruise's line "I mean to beat you to death, and drink your blood from a boot."

and okay I'm done posting for now, at least until his next movie comes out.

JAI COURTNEY