#JACK REACHER NEVER GO BACK 2016 MOVIE#
Review: Although I wasn’t blown away by the first Jack Reacher movie I still found plenty to enjoy there were some solid action scenes and a rather terrifying villain played by Werner Herzog. On the run as a fugitive from the law, Reacher uncovers a potential secret from his past that could change his life forever. Plot: Jack Reacher must uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name. But if bullets and bats are giving way to hugs and chats, then sorry, Jack, let’s never go back.Jack Reacher: Never Go Back was very disappointing the teenage girl was annoying, it was too long and despite being a big Tom Cruise fan I’m not sure he’s right for this role. He was a supporting character of sorts: When there was injustice afoot, Jack blew into town, beat up people, saved the day and then moseyed off, maintaining a nice sense of mystery.Ĭhild has written 20 of these Reacher books, so the franchise could have a long life. The beauty of the original Jack Reacher was that, for the most part, it wasn’t really his movie. Lee Child, the author of the Jack Reacher novels, gets a fun cameo as a TSA agent, Patrick Heusinger is solid as Jack’s chief foe, but the movie completely wastes Robert Knepper’s talents by casting him as a forgettable, one-dimensional villain. Smulders does well with the action scenes, yet the bickering between Susan and Jack grows old quickly: She doesn’t want to be treated like a woman, while he’s being overprotective about her and the kid, tripping over himself in the process. The early scenes in which Jack and Susan semi-swoon about having a first date show potential heat, but that goes cold once they hit the road. They’re pursued by bad guys all the way to New Orleans, where a convoluted plot involving a private military firm, black-market weapons and drug-addled veterans gets in the way of the simple joy of Jack taking out a guy in an airplane bathroom or Jack crashing into things driving a speedy MP vehicle. Things pick up when he starts punching people, breaks Susan out of jail, gets his possible daughter, Samantha (Danika Yarosh) - since the rumor gets out that she’s his child - and goes on the lam. If that’s not enough, an Army lawyer tells Jack he’s been named in a paternity suit regarding a teenager he never knew he had with a woman he can't remember. Susan has been arrested for espionage after two of her soldiers are killed overseas, and when Jack starts digging around, he gets hauled in, too, and is framed for murder. When he finally shows up in D.C., he's walking into a heap of trouble. (His anti-authority streak didn’t mesh long term with higher-ups, shockingly.) He helps her out with various cases and has a flirtatious way with her on the phone.
Tom Cruise’s drifter hero was a highlight of the surprise 2012 guilty-pleasure action movie that wore his name but the sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (** out of four rated PG-13 in theaters nationwide Friday) is a major step backward with an A-list actor in a C-grade military thriller.ĭirected by Edward Zwick ( Glory), the two-fisted tale this time finds Jack looking to meet up with Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), an Army major who commands Jack’s old military-police unit. And he’s kind of like a cup of generic black coffee: That first swig is a kick but, man, the taste doesn’t last.
Jack Reacher loves diners, whether he's wrecking people in them or just having a hot beverage.
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