The investigating officer Emerson (David Oyelowo) is certain of his guilt, but to Emerson's astonishment and chagrin, a brilliant and beautiful lawyer, Helen (Pike), has stepped forward to defend this man, simply to spite her overbearing dad, the district attorney, played by Richard Jenkins. This Pimpernel of the US military re-emerges when a trained army sniper is arrested for the fatal shooting of five people, apparently at random. We get to glimpse his file, which is regarded with the same awestruck respect and fear as that of Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. Reacher is a wild card, a highly decorated warrior once employed as a brilliant internal investigator, who has now quit the army and disappeared off the map, living a mysterious and somewhat ascetic life. He wears leather bomber jackets and tan shoes, and in one scene a Persil-white top that is almost as low-cut as Pike's. Cruise gets one fairly cheeky shirtless scene – which McQuarrie ironises with a throwaway gag – and his chest dimensions have evidently expanded mightily, while his tummy is sort of contracted into a muscular scrunch, as if you'd removed the plastic holding together a six-pack of beer and tied it in a knot. He does, however, appear to be at eye-level with Rosamund Pike.
So he remedies matters by bulking out east and west and walking with a shoulder-rolling, sub-Mitchum gait as if getting his arms past his pecs was a big problem. Tom Cruise is naturally Reacher, who in the book is a big guy. When he read through the script, we can only imagine Herzog's subsequent, tearful phone call to his agent: "I thaWatch the trailer for Jack Reacher Paramount At first glance, this looks hurtfully close to typecasting.
Herzog just happens to be playing the sinister-looking, scary European guy with the heavy German accent. And now the legendary German director Werner Herzog appears in this movie, which stars Tom Cruise as hunky military investigator Jack Reacher, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and adapted by him from the bestseller One Shot by Lee Child. François Truffaut appeared in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Fritz Lang appeared in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris. T here is a rich and varied tradition of great directors taking cameos in other people's films.
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