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There's without question fun to be had with their roles and the film itself, but I can't help but think some more time in the writer's room could have helped polish the film a little.
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Both have minimal screen time but they nonetheless steal every scene they are in. Much of the rest of the film's fun comes from some expectedly great supporting performances from Duvall and Herzog. McQuarrie's directing talent really shines there. The opening segment, along with two other extended sequences, are impressively done with absolutely no dialogue, yet you understand exactly what's going on. Way before Cruise throws a single punch or shoots any bullets, I was sucked into the mystery the opening presents. Investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) springs into action after the arrest of Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), an Army major accused of treason. With that said, the brilliance of the film lies within all of its espionage and mysterious elements.
JACK REACHER. SERIES
The author of the immensely popular series says his days as a novelist are over. While there’s been no specific mention of a number of series being made, it seems likely that Amazon and the show’s producers hope to make Reacher a regular feature on the streaming service. Jack Reacher stays the course as Lee Child hands author’s reins to his brother Andrew Grant.
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I just would have liked a bit more of a happy medium between the two. Not for another film this time, but for a thrilling new TV series for Amazon Prime. But the final 30 minutes completely forget about the grounded tone and let Cruise loose on one of his bone-crushing Mission Impossible action sprees. At times, it claims itself to be a serious and even tragic espionage thriller. Although I think Christopher McQuarrie's directorial effort for M:I 5 was impeccable, he has trouble balancing the tone and pace of this particular film.
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The film itself definitely takes itself a little bit more serious, however, which is where it runs into a few problems. Now over 50-years old, I'm glad he still loves delivering those cheesy punch lines as much as he is doing insane stunts. Reacher is a slightly more brutal and definitely cockier version of his now classic, Ethan Hunt character from M:I. But if we are being honest, Cruise is having by far the most fun here. Jack Reacher stars several Oscar caliber actors including Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, David Oyelowo, Robert Duvall, and Werner Herzog. But it's far from a weak spot in Cruise' long history of brilliant action fun. Reacher has been called one of this century’s most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes by. The books in the series follow Reacher as he goes through a number of exploits in his world. Unfortunately, Jack Reacher didn't reach that feat, nor did it probably deserve to. Jack Reacher is the lead character and the protagonist in the series of books by British author Jim Grant who writes under the pseudonym of Lee Child. Jack Reacher has been turned into a film and is also reportedly being made into a series for Amazon’s Prime service.Īccording to the Times’ report, the cover of the next Reacher novel – in a series which is published by an imprint of Random Penguin House – will read: “Lee Child with Andrew Child”, in what has been interpreted as a possible sign of the publishing company’s nerves.Tom Cruise may very well be the one man left in Hollywood who commands the top spot in the box office opening weekend. And I know he’s now in safe hands.”Ĭhild has sold more than 100m books since embarking on a career as a novelist relatively late in life at 40. He added: “Readers don’t need to know about me or whoever writes the books.
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“It’s not as if I twisted his arm into doing it. Grant is an established author in his own right. It would take an army to bring him down Reacher had to have an afterlife after I was done,” Child told the Times. First of all, I thought he would go out in a blaze of bullets, something like the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. “For years I thought about different ways of killing Reacher off. Lee Child said he has been searching for a way to kill off the title character, portrayed on film by Tom Cruise, for years but has ultimately decided his fans deserve to see him live on in books which will now be written by Andrew Grant.īut Child, who was born James Grant, has reportedly set out a condition for his brother: he too must change his surname to Child. The author of the Jack Reacher series of novels is retiring and handing over the writing duties to his brother, according to a report.