thread for the movie JACK REACHER (cruise, pike, herzog, duvall, dir. christopher mcquarrie)

its during like two line stand in actor roles as well as gairly iften for our main guy

mark ruffalos hulk is somewhat reminiscent

/fairly often/

catheter torture was uh…vivid lol

from the reachers i remember reading, season 1 book (killing floor?) was always the best ito how well it would translate to tv and after finishing s2 i think the source was a messy one to try to make work, but even at that they made a clumsy (hamfisted lol amirite) job of it

ends up being a lot of trailerable moments stitched together with very rushed and forced beats about why we care (we dont, or at least we shouldnt)

final showdown is particularly shite

6/10 im bored now, nealey actress and character 100% deserves a spinoff show now

Should have been Reacher, Nealy and Herc stopping a much smaller criminal plot. Reacher’s added team were dead weight.

i enjoyed the tension of the generic white small sassy guy being a total stick-on for a double cross for as long as it lasted but of course reacher couldnt have been seen to have been fooled that way either originally or in present day

btw if these things merit a comparative analysis (they dont i think) then season 2 mawkish sentimentality and trite refrains of the likes of u do not mess with the 100th (i dont think a single cast member over the whole show managed to deliver this line with anything except the disdain it deserved as a raison d'etre for the whole affair) i think that it veered far more heavily into the aviators, masturbation over uniform and frenz4lyfe after an armwrestle of tom clancy than the usually-quite-tight episodic cut and dried situational reacher novels (ofc they arent without some level of the above but not to the extent s2 in particular was)

I will happily watch yer man bulldoze his way through anything but this season was a slog. Obviously, the whole premise stretches credulity but it works best when it's isolated from the real world. This was way too real-world-adjacent and, despite the carnage, it never really felt like anything mattered or had consequences.

haven't seen the show but the neagley character that appears in a couple of the books is terrific and I always wished lee child had spun off a couple of books centred on her

Agreed. Persuader has been announced as the s3 book, fyi.