Actors: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders,
Patrick Heusinger, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh and Holt McCallany
Rating: 8 out of 10, I’ve gotten over
the initial rage I felt when I heard the pint sized Tom Cruise was playing the
behemoth character of Reacher because Cruise did such a good job in the first
film. He’s back in form here but this doesn’t resonate as well as the first.
They drag in a potential daughter which wasn’t needed and added an unnecessary
plot line. We don’t need to see Reacher’s softer side. He’s around to kick ass
and take names. He gets to do the requisite amount of that and is ably assisted
by Colby Smulders who apparently picked up some skills from her Avenger time.
So not as good as the first one but that’s usually the case. Cruise at least
doesn’t besmirch Reacher’s reputation and this should lead more people to read
the books where they’ll meet the “real” Reacher. So this is, in fact, a public
service film.
MVP: Smulders as Maj Susan Turner the perfect
female foil to the implacable Reacher
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