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I was totally, completely prepared to despise this movie. In fact, I avoided it at first. When I heard back when that Cruise had acquired the book I was.. well, sort of disgusted. I've read all the Jack Reacher books.. which indicates that I like and enjoy them. Always look forward to reading a new one as they come out. And Tom Cruise.. a runt.. is NO Jack Reacher. Whatsoever! And Jack Reacher ain't a handsome guy by any means. I figure the guy to play Jack Reacher would be Vinnie Jones.. if he could manage an American accent. A big hulking homely guy with an authentic military bearing. Jack Reacher was a major in the military police. You think handsome little runts get into that position.. forget about it. As Reacher says in one of the books, if you're going to go out and pursue and arrest some of the toughest hardest guys in the world, special forces guys and so on, stone killers, you must be tougher and harder. Period. Tom Cruise does not and cannot pull it off. That being said, if you are prepared to forget all about the Jack Reacher novels and just watch a typical Tom Cruise movie, it's okay. It's a sufficient time waster with a few good scenes in it. And the great Werner Herzog as a psychopathic bad guy is amusing. In short, well, there are worse films to watch and if nothing better is on.. what the heck.

So much hate for this work of art! Yikes! The saga of Nikopol and the Immortals ran for a long time in Heavy Metal magazine. I think it came over from the original Metal Hurlant from France. This was a different time. The music was different. The people were different. Our sense of art was different. Many artists and musicians loved to read Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant back then. It was a sort of comic book for intellectuals. Remember most of us had come out of the world of the 60s and into the 70s. Our sense of things was much different than today. Back then art --especially graphic art--was vital to us. Now, perhaps, its the internet. Then it was still the days of print. We read books copiously. We lived for books. We read graphic art much the same. It was important to us. So, if you like, this Nikopol thing is.. nostalgia? Nostalgia for a time when poetry still existed? A time before the human spirit was crushed and degraded into the withered corrupted thing it is today? Or not. Have it your own way.

Azimov said 90% of everything is crap; but Too Much Coffee Man said ".. except crap. 100% of crap is crap." I'd stop there but I gotta get 10 lines to publish. So.. a great many really rotten flicks are created by would-be artists. Or "artists" to be more accurate. By and large these are utterly no-talent bums with nothing but a burning itch to be rich. They see a word of crap in which other no-talent bums are becoming successful peddling awful stuff.. and they are encouraged to follow suit. Too bad. There is a minimum of talent that is required in any art form. Pretentious gipe like this is merely annoying. If you enjoy being annoyed by crap then by all means jump right in.