CinemaCon 2012: Tom Cruise brawls as Jack Reacher in One Shot footage

If Tom Cruise gives you the option of backing off before he kicks you squarely in the crotch take it.

Monday nights (ahem) kickoff to CinemaCon, the annual theater-owners convention in Las Vegas, revealed the first footage of Cruise as a street-fighting man, playing the rugged drifter Jack Reacher in next Decembers crime drama One Shot. Lets just say hes not interested in a fair game of fisticuffs.

The scenes arent being released yet, but EW has all the details after the jump.

Based on the best-selling novels by Lee Child, Cruises casting last summer irked some fans of the books because Reacher, a former Army police officer, is described as being 6-foot-5 and weighing around 250 pounds. Hes a hulk of a man, roaming from town to town under various aliases, and turning vigilante when his sense of right and wrong is offended.

In a taped intro from the set of his sci-fi film Oblivion, currently shooting in Baton Rouge, Cruise acknowledged the physical differences, but said he had Childs blessing. For those of you who know the books, Im obviously not 6-foot-5, like Jack Reacher, the 5-foot-7 actor said with a laugh. But Lee felt that I was the right guy to drive fast cars and kick the st out of people onscreen.

With an attitude like that, clearly Cruise knows the spirit of this character.

Disclaimer: What follows doesnt spoil any major plot points, but does describe the scenes in detail.

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