Jack Reacher Reviews

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• what could be a taut 90 minutes turns into a puffy 130, as McQuarrie attempts to pack as many characters and twists into his plot as he did for his screenplay for The Usual Suspects

  by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]

• the movie is asking us to ­escape from fresh horror into this stale, manufactured variety

  by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]

• the movie invites us to identify, not with innocent people, but with the assassin's power

  by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• still, McQuarrie's script never gets at the heart of a character who's already inspired such a passionate fan base

  by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]

• Reacher is a brawny action figure whose exploits would have been a good fit for the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone back in the day, but feel less fun when delegated to a leading man like Tom Cruise

  by Peter Debruge [Variety ]

• McQuarrie walks the line perfectly, delivering a scene that is tense and devastating but never grotesque

  by Tom Clift [Moviedex ]

• luckily, there are other actors to look at here, and they manage to throw off some intelligent energy when they're around

  by Stephanie Zacharek [NPR ]

• like its namesake antihero, "Jack Reacher" has hefty challenges to overcome from the get-go

  by Kristin Tillotson [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

• Cruise might not be the 6-foot-5 rock described in the books, but he makes the title role fit him like a latex glove in a winning turn that could spawn a popular new franchise for the star

  by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]

• an appealing genre piece built on a solid foundation of smartly modulated friction, blending old-fashioned fisticuffs with an engaging murder inquiry that reeks of mysterious frame-up

  by Brent Simon [Screen International ]

• a superior thriller, with Cruise and McQuarrie slotting together like a bullet in a clip

  by James Mottram [Total Film ]
• Reviewed by Betsy Sharkey [Los Angeles Times ]

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