Nothing is! Sometimes the film’s frenetic pace works, as in a brutally efficient half-second fight in an airplane bathroom. With upcoming films including Top Gun 2, Mission Impossible 6 and The Mummy reboot, he’s clearly a fool for nostalgia, just like the rest of us.No matter how insipid the reaction shots are, you have to give them one thing: They’re not on screen for very long. Cruise can carry a film like this on his shoulders with ease and while he could be doing something more challenging with his time, you’ve got to empathise with the guy. It’s also the first proper action outing (unless you’re counting superhero films, but they’re essentially a genre all their own at this point) we’ve had this year. Moreover, it’s a major (pardon the pun) improvement on the first, this probably being largely because it was in the hands of the talented director Edward Zwick, whose impressive credits include Glory, The Last Samurai, Love & Other Drugs, and Blood Diamond.
Like its predecessor, legal thriller is mixed with action flick and it achieves the balance far better than the 2012 film, mostly by leaning towards the latter. Between her and Major Turner, it's great to see some worthy female characters in action movies.
Samantha’s mother has demanded child support from Jack which indicates that Samantha is his teenage daughter, although he has never met her or knew she existed before this. The ‘I’m a woman and I find it tough to be taken seriously by my military colleagues’ feels a little forced but in fairness, when it comes to the fight and action scenes, Smulders more than holds her own against an on-screen partner like Cruise.Īnother sub-plot that adds a bit of something to the film comes in the character of Samantha Dayton, played by Danika Yarosh. He is certain that it’s a mistake.Īlthough Susan is Jack’s potential love interest, the character is thankfully not reduced to that alone.
Turner and Reacher start corresponding with one another through phone calls which get increasingly flirtatious.However, when Tom goes to meet her face-to-face so he can ask her to dinner, he learns that she has been arrested. He is ‘the guy you didn’t count on’ but as the title ‘A Tom Cruise Production’ reads across the scene, you think actually, yeah, we did count on that.Ĭobie Smulders, best-known for playing Robin in How I Met Your Mother and Maria Hill in the Marvel franchise, plays Major Susan Turner. Army Military Police Corps officer and drifter. ‘One guy took them all out in, like, seconds.’ Said guy is Jack Reacher, a former U.S. The two are forced to go on the run and, with limited resources on hand, try to find out the truth so they can clear their names. A former Major in the United States Army Military Police Corps discovers a conspiracy that wrongly frames a fellow Major for espionage.