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Photo “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” is the second movie that Tom Cruise has starred in as this title character.
Video The appeal of Jack Reacher seems obvious but remains elusive onscreen.
In the first movie, “Jack Reacher”, the menace begins with a multiple shooting that leads to a conspiracy, false charges against Reacher, a damsel in distress and swarms of villains.
Genre fiction depends on archetypes and familiar iconography, its white hats and black, but this second Reacher flick recycles so much that its title feels like false advertising.
T is yet another shooting, yet more false accusations against Reacher and yet another conspiracy that leads from the power corridors of Washington to New Orleans.
It’s t, during yet another of that city’s conveniently colorful carnivals, that costumed revelers dance carefree in the streets as Reacher battles evil, which is a fairly jaundiced take on ordinary civilians.
Here, Mr. Zwick livens up the tired material with tepid comedy – namely with a play family for Reacher in the form of an action-figure wife and a teenage daughter – but neither he nor Mr. Cruise registers as entirely comfortable with all the genre elements this story demands.
That’s especially true of Reacher’s bone-crunching sadism, which he rains down on opponents with the wrath of a vengeful patriarch.
“Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” is rated PG-13 for gun violence and a lot of bone-breaking.