He’s a nonsense character, existing so Cruise can flex his still-got-it muscles, and weightless enough to build some airport novels around. Reacher-who at 6’5” is infamously a foot taller in the books than Cruise-is a former Army major who drifts around, settling scores, and defending the innocent and vulnerable. It’s disconcerting to see Cruise phoning it in.
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But here, with an older, more sedate presence in Edward Zwick, the film has the empty sheen of a quick in-and-out cash grab, a movie insisting that it’s a franchise while the audience yawns indifferently. Abrams but the constant, as always, is Cruise.) Cruise has kept his place atop the movie-star food chain by working with young, new directors who are eager to put their twist on the Cruse persona. ( Mission Impossible is another monument to Cruise’s persistence: It’s been going nearly twenty years, with directors as varied as Brian DePalma, John Woo, Brad Bird and J.J. Based on the novels by Lee Child-books better known more for their page-turner quality than their psychological depth, Jack Reacher has always struck me as Cruise’s second-tier Mission:Impossible franchise, the movies he picks up while he’s killing time. Cruise, who produced this and the previous Jack Reacher film, clearly sees something in the character, but I’ll confess I’m not quite sure what it is.
One of the more discouraging aspects of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is how by-the-numbers it is. I don’t know how you do it, or even why, but who am I to tell you to stop? It’s patently ridiculous that Cruise-now 54 and older than Wilford Brimley in Cocoon - is still running around and getting in fights with his shirt off, but he throws himself into each role with such abandon, I can’t help but begrudgingly admire him.
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Actors and crew famously love working with Cruise because he’s a hard-working professional who shows up on time and always gives it his all, for better and for worse. Cruise’s dogged persistence and legendary intensity-at one point in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, a teenage girl tells him point blank “you’re very intense”-has led to his spot as one of longest-lasting movie stars in the world, despite his public embarrassments and eccentricities. Whatever your thoughts about Tom Cruise, it’s impossible to argue the guy doesn’t go for it.
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