Tom Cruise is back to thrill audiences with Jack Reacher sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back movie. The original movie set in Pittsburgh, PA showed Reacher getting to the bottom of sniper killing of the Allegheny river shores near Pittsburgh Downtown. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Movie is scheduled to release on 21st October.
Never Go Back looks more like an action thriller set around army, with deception and plots and this time around is set in New Orleans, where Reacher must help his army friend, Susan Turner, clear an espionage charge.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Cast
This installment of the Jack Reacher franchise is directed by Edward Zwick, who also writes the screenplay of the movie. Edward Zwick has directed action movies like Blood Diamond, The Siege, Daniel Craig starrer Defiance.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
Director: Edward Zwick
Stars: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Danika Yarosh
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Movie Story
The movie picks up after 10 years since the Pittsburgh shootings. A lot has happened in the intervening years ans jack has been around the country from South Dakota to Mississippi. Jack reaches Virginia to meet his commanding officer, but finds out that she has been arrested for espionage.
He tries to find out what the charges are about and realizes the they are related to his time in the army, years back. He also finds himself in similar allegations and decides to clear their name and expose the real perpetrator.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Movie Review
Tom Cruise does not really fit the big, mean hero painted in Lee Child’s Reacher novels, but we know that. But what Never Go Back lacks is a good plot and a towering, mean villain that can make you root for the Hero. A weak supporting cast dooms the movie and leaves everything up to Tom Cruise to shoulder this one to the end.
The Film Stage reports the Never Go Back lacks the ability to hook its viewers who will be invested in the story as Jack Reacher is in what is happening on screen. Critics believe the movie has a very simple story and is a plain action movie with the protagonist trying to save a friend and fight a bunch of bad guys.
But Tom Cruise fans will not have much wanting as Reacher moves more to Tom Cruise’s tunes than Lee Child’s character in the movie. The Guardian confirms that although the movie is run-of-the-mill action movie, there is enough juice in it to make you grab a bucket of pop-corn and watch the leading pair beat the crap out of the baddies.
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