Just to be clear I'm a big fan of Cobie Smulders and her portrayal of kick-ass women. Of course Agent Hill, but especially the cute, lovable, baby hating, and trigger happy sociopath Robin Scherbatsky. Having said this, I have to admit she ruined the Jack Reacher Experience for me. Jack Reacher is entertaining because it features pure bigger-than-life, lonesome-rider machismo: "There is no Jack Reacher in team"! He is bad-ass and nobody else is, except maybe much less so the villain. This worked excellent in the first instalment, the adding of Robin - sorry Major Turner - ruined it. And I have to emphasise, this is not a gender issue. I would like to see a: "Jackie Reacher" movie, starring Cobie Smulders or Angelina Jolie or Sigourney Weaver or Milla Jovovich or or or! However only with a damoiseau-in-distress male actor, no team partner. And yes - to be fair - it wasn't a bad movie, it could just have been much better.
Review of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
