#JACK REACHER 2 MOVIE#

Curb-Stomp Battle: The film opens on the aftermath of one inflicted by Reacher on four thugs.

Creator Cameo: Lee Child briefly appears as a TSA agent.

Combat Pragmatist: Turner makes a habit of arming herself with a melee weapon before entering hand-to-hand combat to make up for her smaller size.

Clear Their Name: Reacher takes on his own hands proving that Turner is innocent of the espionage charges she's accused.

In the end, she successfully disarms the Hunter when Reacher repeats the same phrase. Reacher claims if she gets in a position where such a technique could be used, she would be 'already dead'.

Chekhov's Skill: Halfway in, Major Turner teaches Sam a defensive technique to disarm an attacker.

Jack opens up the fight by swinging the hook into his face.

Chekhov's Gun: When Jack Reacher goes into an abandoned building and is confronted my mercenaries, a metal hook is dangling between him and the lead merc.

Though she turns out not to be Reacher's daughter in the end.

Bratty Teenage Daughter: Sam practically bleeds this trope due to her comfortless upbringing.

The Big Easy: The second half takes place in New Orleans.

Their final fight happens because the Hunter, now the last man standing after the Parasource conspiracy is blown wide open and everybody is dead or arrested, decides trying to keep his word is Worth It.

He then swears he will do it just for the hell of it, regardless of whether or not Reacher is dead by then. And Your Little Dog, Too!: The Hunter starts trying to find and kill Sam because he knows it'll bring Reacher out into the open.вЂњJack Reacher: Never Go BackвЂќ is rated PG-13 for gun violence and a lot of bone-breaking. The characterвЂ™s primitivism would fit Mel Gibson like a black leather glove. ThatвЂ™s especially true of ReacherвЂ™s bone-crunching sadism, which he rains down on opponents with the wrath of a vengeful patriarch. Cruise registers as entirely comfortable with all the genre elements this story demands. Zwick livens up the tired material with tepid comedy - namely with a play family for Reacher in the form of an action-figure wife (Cobie Smulders) and a teenage daughter (Danika Yarosh) - but neither he nor Mr. The director Edward Zwick tends to sign his name to nominally more elevated material with lofty, serious themes and objectives (вЂњGlory,вЂќ вЂњBlood DiamondвЂќ). Cruise does what he can, mostly by cycling through his scowls as well as running, leaping and punching. In both movies, though, heвЂ™s little more than a furrowed brow and pummeling fist. HeвЂ™s the kind of heroic question mark that works only if thereвЂ™s enough star charisma or filmmaking to fill in the gaps. (He does ride off in a white T-shirt.) All this is meant to make him seem mysterious, but mostly he comes off as a blank, without psychological or emotional depth. Reacher is a former military man, as he often reminds people, and unencumbered by home, companion, car, dog, backpack or even a change of clothes. Then again, reality doesnвЂ™t cut it in fantasies like this. ItвЂ™s an ugly, pessimistic world overflowing with so much wrong that of course it has spawned a sequel with the same dreary beats. In the first movie, вЂњ Jack ReacherвЂќ (2012), the menace begins with a multiple shooting that leads to a conspiracy, false charges against Reacher, a damsel in distress and swarms of villains.

The creation of Lee Child, Reacher is one of those enigmatic, borderline mystical types who surface out of the haze to handle villainy with boundless intelligence, weapons mastery and annihilating violence. The appeal of Jack Reacher seems obvious but remains elusive onscreen. In recent years, only the apparently indestructible вЂњMission: ImpossibleвЂќ franchise has provided him with a steady vehicle for his talents as well as for a ride to box-office success.

Cruise deserves better, as do his loyalists, who have stuck with him through the good and the bad, both in perfectly tailored roles that failed to impress audiences ( вЂњEdge of TomorrowвЂќ) and in roles that were unworthy of all his work and our love ( вЂњOblivionвЂќ).

#JACK REACHER 2 MOVIE#

вЂњJack Reacher: Never Go BackвЂќ is the second movie that Tom Cruise has starred in as this title character.

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