![]() ![]() The Oscar-winner had helmed such romantically violent pictures as Blood Diamond, Glory, Courage Under Fire, and Legends of the Fall. Having also worked with Cruise before on The Last Samurai, Zwick is no stranger to action, let alone properly framing conversations. It’s a solid and well-made film that is nothing to be ashamed of.īut shame should befall Edward Zwick, who picked up the director chair in McQuarrie’s absence. The first film also had a stellar supporting roles filled by David Oyelowo, Werner Herzog, Richard Jenkins, Rosamund Pike, and Robert Duvall, all of whom give the movie the right gravitas for what essentially is just different takes at fist punching. And what followed was Rogue Nation, yours truly’s favorite film in the IMF saga, and what I consider to be one of the best action-films of the 21st century. The two had made several films together as writer and producer, and this was a litmus test to see if they could work together to eventually make a Mission: Impossible feature. The first Jack Reacher was by no means a masterpiece, but was an exercise for Cruise to work with Christopher McQuarrie for the first time in the director’s chair. This shouldn’t even qualify as a movie but a demo-reel of how not to shoot a film. It’s such a bad movie that it should be ranked amongst the worst that Cruise has ever, or hopefully, will ever do. In as little hyperbole as can be given, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is a terrible and godawful movie. What he comes to find is a vast conspiracy that will ultimately lead back to his haunted past, and reveal secrets that even he didn’t know he had. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back follows, if one can even say that, hired-hand Jack as he must help clear the name of Turner ( Cobie Smulders), an army Commander who is falsely accused of terrorism and murder. There’s no redeeming qualities about this second bat at Jack-base, save for plenty of bad jokes that are getting dropped. This was a bad decision on Cruise’s part. Jack is basically a poor man’s Ethan Hunt from the IMF movies, but the film is just another vehicle for Cruise to feature his trademark ‘run around a lot with intense focus’ moves. Even when he did the first Jack Reacher, it was clear Cruise was ramping up for some insane body art on the silver screen.Īfter kicking the ever-living crap out of the film in Rogue Nation, Cruise has come back to the lesser of his action-man franchises, Jack Reacher. Despite his lamentable role in Rock of Ages, his death-defying stunts in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol were beginning to align with the courageous stunt work of Buster Keaton. Starting off with Oblivion in 2013, and subsequently followed up by Edge of Tomorrow and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Cruise was crushing his way to action-star superstardom. Tom Cruise was on such a good roll, so what happened?
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