Tom Cruise Reaches Out to Deck a Bunch of Guys in the Face in the New ‘Jack Reacher’ Trailer

Sure, Tom Cruise has been hit or miss as of late. Valkyrie wasn't a big hit, Rock of Ages came and went, but Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol reestablished Cruise as a badass, bone-crunching action star. His age is starting to show, but at 50-years-old, what can you expect? His next movie casts him as the literary one-man-army Jack Reacher. And thankfully the film also casts Rosamund Pike as the woman in peril Cruise needs to save while investigating the identity of a shooter.

A city is thrown into chaos following a shooting that leaves five dead. What at first seems like a simple case to solve becomes complicated when the accused requests that Jack Reacher be put on the case.

Jack Reacher comes out on December 21st.