Jack Reacher (2012)

All Critics (168) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (103) | Rotten (65)

There is a dogged leanness to Reacher's pursuit that lifts his adventures from the generic rut ...

January 21, 2013 Full Review

Anthony Lane

New Yorker

Top Critic

If Cruise's fantasy superhero garners as many staunch fans ... we may be witnessing the birth of a new franchise.

January 2, 2013 Full Review

Kathleen Murphy

MSN Movies

Top Critic

Jack Reacher already feels as if it belongs to another era.

December 24, 2012 Full Review

David Edelstein

Vulture

Top Critic

A clumsily condensed mystery/thriller novel made into a movie that offers little more than every other clumsily condensed mystery/thriller novel made into a movie.

December 24, 2012 Full Review

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

A workmanlike action thriller, competent but never particularly thrilling.

December 24, 2012 Full Review

Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

Top Critic

The dialogue is often unintentionally funny and Cruise's performance is all wrong.

December 23, 2012 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper.com

Top Critic

Christopher McQuarrie's Jack Reacher is that rare blend of hard-hitting action and smooth-talking dialogue that makes for an entertaining film.

May 7, 2013 Full Review

Jeremy Lebens

We Got This Covered

Cruise does his best to keep a straight face and make himself halfway believable as a brainy roughhouser - think of a less intense Jason Bourne - but ridiculous plotting undermines his efforts.

May 7, 2013 Full Review

Phil Villarreal

OK! Magazine

McQuarrie deftly intermixes observations on human nature - aware that in life, as in all great mysteries, people are not so easily described as "killer" and "victim." Part of why you root for Jack Reacher is his empathy for these foibles and follies.

May 5, 2013 Full Review

Nick Rogers

Suite101.com

Jack Reacher revolves around wild impossibilities and baffling motivations, and the conclusion is a whopper that outdoes everything I've discussed above.

April 26, 2013 Full Review

Christopher Null

Film Racket

Another macho loner fights for justice

March 28, 2013 Full Review

Robert Denerstein

Movie Habit

A violent adaptation of the bestselling novels about an Iraq War veteran turned vigilante investigator.

March 3, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

...a better-than-average modern-day thriller that hopefully marks the start of a promising new series.

February 24, 2013 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Cruise may be getting older, but he's still the best action star in Hollywood. "Jack Reacher" is typical of the kind of smart choices he's making these days. We could really use more films like this one.

February 7, 2013 Full Review

Paul Chambers

Movie Chambers

'Jack Reacher' is a lot smarter than you've been led to believe by the ads.

February 3, 2013 Full Review

Linda Cook

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

It's easy to like the idea of a Jack Reacher movie; it takes a little more effort to like the one writer-director Christopher McQuarrie (who penned 'The Usual Suspect's) has made.

February 2, 2013 Full Review

Dan Lybarger

KC Active

Another notch on Tom Cruise's action hero belt and demonstrates why he is still one the most bankable action men in Hollywood

January 20, 2013 Full Review

Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

This is solid, enjoyable, formula-driven stuff designed to self-replicate into a film series, nothing more - and there's nothing wrong with that.

January 16, 2013 Full Review

Jim Schembri

3AW

Reacher is a fascinating character, to be sure, both a virtuous crusader for justice and a cold-blooded killer. Here's hoping that any future big-screen installments might develop those conflicted sides into something with a darker edge.

January 14, 2013 Full Review

Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue.com

An often outlandish, overly talky crime-procedural drama that seems like a vanity project its marquee star must have wanted to do with his director buddy while waiting for their next "Mission Impossible" collaboration.

January 9, 2013 Full Review

Neil Pond

American Profile

So long as you accept that the twain will never meet between the film and book versions of Jack Reacher, you should be able to enjoy each exclusively if not necessarily as a compliment to one another.

January 7, 2013 Full Review

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

(Cruise)... is assisted by a fine supporting cast that includes, besides Pike, Jenkins and Herzog, David Owelolo, Jai Courtney and Cruise's old buddy, the great Robert Duvall who, at age 81, continues to amaze.

January 6, 2013 Full Review

Michael A. Smith

MediaMikes

Unless you cast Yao Ming as Bilbo Baggins, what bearing does height have on a characterisation? Thank Christ that Cruise has an unwavering sense of self, as Jack Reacher is old school action dynamite.

January 6, 2013 Full Review

Adam Ross

The Aristocrat

Ultimately, the film rises and falls on Cruise's aggressively magnetic performance.

January 4, 2013 Full Review

Louis Black

Austin Chronicle

A less robotic lead would have been appreciated, but McQuarrie has delivered an efficient action-crime film with Reacher as the sort of unstoppable, ultracompetent reluctant hero once played on the B-movie circuit by Chuck Norris.

January 4, 2013 Full Review

John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

• 1. Jack Reacher: Pay your cheque first.
  2. Jeb: I'll pay later.
  3. Jack Reacher: You won't be able to.
  4. Jeb: You think?
  5. Jack Reacher: All the time. You should try it.
  – Submitted by Bogdan G (19 days ago)
• 1. Jack Reacher: Yout think I'm a hero? I am not a hero. I'm a drifter with nothing to lose.
  – Submitted by Bryan O (54 days ago)
• 1. Emerson: Awkward meeting you.
  2. Jack Reacher: Likewise.
  – Submitted by Evan M (3 months ago)
• 1. Emerson: A stitch in time saves nine.
  – Submitted by Tom C (4 months ago)
• 1. Jack Reacher: How about the inside of an ambulance?
  – Submitted by Peter G (4 months ago)
• 1. Jack Reacher: Just remember, you wanted this.
  – Submitted by Kennie D (4 months ago)