Tom Cruise shifts into kick-your-ass-gear in the new Japanese trailer for Jack Reacher.
Hopping behind the wheel of a 1970 Chevelle in the new clip, Cruise – a man who shares a fondness for 1970s muscle cars with Reacher writer-director Christopher McQuarrie – goes all-out in the conspiracy thriller's brutal chase scenes. (Probably a good idea since it's unimaginable that he could top the sky scraper free-fall from Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.)
Cruise, who of course did many of his own car-chase stunts for the flick, also doesn't hold back with Jack Reacher's particular brand of whoop-ass, intoning to one particular baddie, "Do you think I'm a hero? I'm not a hero. ... On second thought, I'd like to kill you."
"Jack Reacher" is hardly a household name in the U.S. but the vigilante character, a former military investigator, anchors the series of bestsellers by British novelist Lee Child. The Cruise movie is based on Lee's ninth book One Shot.
McQuarrie, best known for writing twisted noir thriller The Usual Suspects, delivers the gist of Jack Reacher in a trailer that communicates the essentials to Japanese and non-Japanese viewers alike: A sniper did something awful, and Reacher will figure out the conspiracy behind the crime (and shoot things, and race cars).
Looks like a wild ride.
Jack Reacher, co-starring Rosamund Pike (Wrath of the Titans) and film director Werner Herzog, opens Dec. 21.
