Lee Child’s Reacher novels, 17 by now, portray an ex-Army investigator turned drifter who’s part Travis McGee, part Terminator, and all avenging angel. (READ: Corliss’s review of Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 4) Jack Reacher has two other goals: to provide moviegoers with an incorruptible, infallible savior - the American dream man meant to prevent or avenge American nightmares - and to hand Cruise a second franchise, more modest than his globe-trotting, hyper-expensive Mission: Impossible series. It’s the right genre - just, at this time of bereavement, the wrong moment. The mind behind the murders in Jack Reacher is something else this is not a horror film but an old-fashioned detective story cocooned in violence. We’re not spoiling any plot points (the identity of the sniper is revealed in Reacher’s first scene) to say that a tale like this is designed to give motive to madness, to offer the relatively comforting explanation of a conspiracy among the prominent and powerful.
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In the U.S., mass murders and serial killings have become a serial of their own, a frequently recurring horror movie featuring the same monster: some resourceful lunatic whose atrocity contains no political agenda, only an expression of indiscriminate rage. (READ: Michael Crowley on Obama’s Assertion That “These Tragedies Must End”) Appropriately, Paramount Pictures postponed the Saturday evening premiere in Pittsburgh, where the movie was filmed, and where Cruise was to receive commendations from Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Governor Tom Corbett. Popular entertainment, meant to relieve people of real-life cares by leading them into a fictional world, occasionally grazes against some national trauma. Those images will be in most Americans’ minds for a while, certainly through the early run of the movie, which opens Friday. Because it begins with this scene of a mass slaughter, shown from the gunman’s point of view, the movie accidentally and automatically evokes obscene images of slain first-grade children. Jack Reacher, the very ordinary new Tom Cruise thriller, may be a minor collateral victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School carnage. Six shots, five dead - random victims, whose only crime was being in the line of a madman’s fire. Cruising for targets, the sniper aims his M1A Super Match rifle at “the sweet spot where the medulla meets the spine.” Bang bang bang, bang bang bang. Reacher is available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video now.Follow man drives into a Pittsburgh parking garage, deposits a quarter in the meter and stares across the Allegheny River at pedestrians on the esplanade near the Pirates’ PNC Park. In another recent interview, Alan revealed the on-set injury he suffered that required surgery. I think one season’s enough if I heard that from him.
“If I was ever so lucky to get a stamp of approval from him I could die happy," Alan shared. In his own interview with Metro, Alan also had high praise for Tom. Lee went on to note that people who saw Tom's movies - without reading the books first - enjoyed his performance. "What do they need? They need just great entertainment, they don’t have the reference already, and so we also had to satisfy them." “It just became a different proposition and I guess the opportunity of thinking alright, we can get a much bigger guy so the book fans are going to be happy, but we’re also focusing on the non-book readers," Lee explained. When they started casting the new Amazon series, Lee said that they wanted to cast someone who fit Reacher's book description more, looking for someone that was larger than Tom. Fans seem to find Alan as a much better fit as Reacher, since he has a broader build and stands at 6 feet 2 inches tall. “There was criticism from the book fans, because they had built up a very clear image of what Reacher should look like," Lee shared in a new interview with Metro.Ī few days ago, the new Reacher series debuted on Amazon Prime Video with Alan Ritchson in the lead role. While Tom is only 5'7" in real life, there was some backlash over his casting in the movies, since the character in the books is described as being 6’5″-tall and weighing between 210 and 250 pounds. If you didn't know, Tom played Reacher in the 2012 movie Jack Reacher and in the 2016 sequel, Jack Reach: Never Go Back, based on the Lee Child action book series. The Jack Reacher author is addressing the criticism fans had over Tom Cruise playing the Army veteran hero in the movie franchise.
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