Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

— About what you’d expect with Cruise’s charisma and Zwick’s directing experience pushing out the second Jack Reacher action thriller. Unfortunately, the script’s a little straightforward and it pales in comparison to Cruise’s “Mission Impossible” films or even the first "Reacher" film, but it still has enough action, humor and plot twists to make it work. Reacher is a man of few words with lots of martial arts skills who heads up what’s almost a post-Apocalyptic family once he’s running with a feisty teenager and a woman not without her own fighting skills and a carefully scripted ability to exemplify non gender-specific behaviors. It’s better than mediocre and I’ll be curious to see if all three characters reappear in a third film a few years from now.

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[2016. 118 min. Directed by Edward Zwick. Starring Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, and Aldis Hodge.]
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