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75
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
This is Cruise's show. And he nails it. The patented smile is gone, replaced by a glower that makes Jack Reacher a dark and dazzling ride into a new kind of hell.
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58
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
That Cruise fails to make a case for Reacher's allure, though, has less to do with physical dissonance than it does with the film's inability - stupefying inability, really - to otherwise make a case for the character's originality in a movie so choked with visual clichés and dreadfully moldy dialogue.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
An average action film, made slightly better by Cruise, and more bizarre by Herzog, and more watchable by Pike, but still within the average range, a silk purse that still says oink.
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50
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
This movie is the height of by-the-book dullness.
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50
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Despite a terrific cast, Jack Reacher comes up empty-handed.
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40
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
Apart from the car chase, the only real fun in Jack Reacher comes from Mr. Herzog and Robert Duvall, called in near the end for some marvelously gratuitous scenery chewing as a gruff former Marine. They enliven the movie's atmosphere of weary brutality for a few moments, but they also call attention to the dullness of their dramatic surroundings.
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40
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Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
So thrill-less, so chill-less is Jack Reacher that it is unlikely to spark interest, much less controversy.
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38
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Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Jack Reacher is a wildly ill-advised miscalculation, with Cruise's virtually unstoppable appeal butting uncomfortably against Reacher's alternately cocky and downright crude cynicism.
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38
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
The violence is plenty, and pointless.
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0
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Jack Reacher, which Christopher McQuarrie directed from his adaptation of a Lee Child crime novel, is not just another dumb thriller. It's almost peerlessly self-important, weirdly incoherent and eerily smarmy. It's also mysteriously inept, considering that Tom Cruise plays the title role.
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