So he’s a mental gymnast, but the size of an ox!' He's a man of few words, and he allows people to believe what they want to believe about him. But Reacher’s so sharp that he's one step ahead of everybody. He is the drifter who comes into town, and who doesn’t rely on the law because he is the law.'Īlan says he found Reacher’s combination of brains and brawn, together with his tendency not to say much, fascinating to play. 'You expect somebody who looks like that to be a bit of a brute.

He’s that knight in shining armour who cleans up the streets for us. Now that he’s out of the military, he sort of wanders the country, and trouble seems to find him. Reacher star Alan Ritchson told : 'He is a retired military police officer who is huge, violent, highly intelligent, and an incredible detective. (Image credit: Prime Video)Īlan Ritchson is best known for playing Hank Hall (aka Hawk) in DC’s Titans and Aquaman in Smallville. And at six foot three inches tall, he’s much closer to the imposing six foot five character in Lee Child’s novels compared to Cruise, who’s five foot seven. There isn’t even anything remotely visually interesting.Alan Ritchson plays Jack Reacher. The IMAX version is a particular insult to audiences: There’s nothing visually spectacular enough here to warrant paying a premium price for a ticket. There isn’t anything here that isn’t lazy it’s all shockingly rote and tired.

It’s a story with surprisingly low stakes for a would-be action blockbuster, requiring the addition of a tired cliché in the 15-year-old girl (Danika Yarosh) who may or may not be the daughter Reacher never knew he had, who can be threatening as a way to motivate him to Do the Plot.

So he teams up with Major Susan Turner (an underutilized Cobie Smulders) to look into it. This time, former military investigator Reacher (Tom Cruise, also producer for what is a superstar vanity project) stumbles onto a big crime within the US Army, something to do with, maybe, decommissioned weapons from Afghanistan being sold on the black market. If 2012’s Jack Reacher was a forgettable episode of a bland TV show, Never Go Back is the episode that would convince you the show was about to be cancelled, and rightfully so.

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