Jack Reacher Reviews
January 21, 2013
There is a dogged leanness to Reacher's pursuit that lifts his adventures from the generic rut ...
January 4, 2013
Ultimately, the film rises and falls on Cruise's aggressively magnetic performance.
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| Original Score: 3/5
January 2, 2013
If Cruise's fantasy superhero garners as many staunch fans ... we may be witnessing the birth of a new franchise.
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| Original Score: 3/5
December 31, 2012
Jack Reacher tips constantly into self-parody and doesn't know how to signal it, like someone trying to wink at you without the benefit of eyelids.
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| Original Score: 1/5
December 27, 2012
It's high-gloss tripe with noir pretensions.
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| Original Score: 2/5
December 26, 2012
There's no room for Reacher in modern cinema's action crowd.
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| Original Score: 2/5
December 24, 2012
Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise deliver on their promise, with a witty, violent take on Reacher that makes up for its lack of height with an abundance of smarts and thrills.
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| Original Score: 4/5
December 24, 2012
Jack Reacher already feels as if it belongs to another era.
December 24, 2012
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
December 24, 2012
A workmanlike action thriller, competent but never particularly thrilling.
Original Score: 2/4
December 24, 2012
Jack Reacher is an absurdly self-confident, sociopathically laser-focused detective-bot. That is to say, he's a hero that only Tom Cruise could love.
December 23, 2012
The dialogue is often unintentionally funny and Cruise's performance is all wrong.
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| Original Score: 2/5
December 23, 2012
Cruise may not be six-feet-two, but he's believable as a tough guy who can take down brawny opponents in a street fight.
December 22, 2012
Robert Duvall brings a delicious zest to his scenes that almost make us forget that this is a movie in which a man is asked to bite off his own fingers.
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| Original Score: B-
December 21, 2012
This movie is a turkey gone rancid.
December 21, 2012
Werner Herzog, better known as one of the finest living directors, plays a bad guy with Teutonic relish. If he doesn't watch it, he'll have a whole other career for himself playing dead-eyed villains.
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| Original Score: B
December 21, 2012
This is brisk, attention-grabbing, and generally unpretentious -- basically an old noir programmer inflated to blockbuster proportions.
December 21, 2012
The kind of thriller that looks more old-fashioned by the minute ...
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| Original Score: 2/5
December 21, 2012
It only ends up reminding us of how much better Cruise's riskier, more personal work - particularly his outside-the-box performances in pictures like "Tropic Thunder," "Magnolia" and "Rock of Ages" - truly is.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
December 21, 2012
Reacher is limited by a lack of originality and hampered by thematic clichs and generic action sequences.
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| Original Score: 2/4