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Title: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Tom Cruise | ... | Jack Reacher | |
| Cobie Smulders | ... | Turner | |
| Aldis Hodge | ... | Espin | |
| Danika Yarosh | ... | Samantha | |
| Patrick Heusinger | ... | The Hunter | |
| Holt McCallany | ... | Col. Morgan | |
| Robert Knepper | ... | Gen. Harkness | |
| Judd Lormand | ... | Local Deputy | |
| Christopher Berry | ... | Onlooker at Diner | |
| Hunter Burke | ... | Onlooker at Diner | |
| Jason Douglas | ... | Sheriff | |
| Lizeth Hutchings | ... | Smuggled Woman | |
| Marisela Zumbado | ... | Smuggled Woman | |
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Alexandra Lucchesi | ... | Smuggled Woman |
| Madalyn Horcher | ... | Sgt. Leach | |
After accomplishing the assignment of dismantling a human trafficking organization, the former military and drifter Jack Reacher goes to Washington to invite his liaison, Major Susan Turner, to have dinner with him. However, he meets her substitute, Colonel Sam Morgan, who explains that Major Turner has been arrested and accused of espionage. Jack seeks out her veteran lawyer, Colonel Bob Moorcroft, who explains that Major Turner has also been accused of the murders of two soldiers in Afghanistan. Further, he also tells Jack he is being sued, accused by a woman of being the father of her fifteen year-old daughter, Samantha. When Moorcroft is murdered, Jack is accused of being the killer and sent to a prison. He sees that Turner and he have been framed and also that Turner will be killed by two assassins. However, he rescues her and they flee. Soon, they realize that there is a conspiracy involving military people from the army and a government contractor that is a powerful arms dealer... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Former military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) takes down a smuggling ring run by the local sheriff with the help of his successor Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders). He goes to DC to meet her for the first time only to be told that she has been detained for treason. She had sent two investigators to Afganistan who were mysteriously killed. Her military lawyer is killed and Reacher is framed for it. While in detention, Reacher saves Turner from assassins and they escape. Meanwhile, a paternity claim against him has been filed by Candice Dayton for 15-year-old daughter Samantha whom he never met.
The story, the execution, and quite frankly the characters are rather robotic. It's not actually exciting but there is plenty of fight action. There is no mystery or shocking twists or interesting reveals. The big climatic twist is barely a twist. The story unfolds in a string of events that aren't terribly compelling. The bad guys are willing to kill as many people as needed but this is the kind of movie where they always come up a little short ending with a hand-to-hand fight. On the plus side, Smulders delivers a tough character without it all collapsing into a romantic puddle although it threatens to from time to time. This franchise keeps doing the hat thing but it's not filmed well. The point is for the character to disappear. It needs a scene where we lose track of Cruise (or Smulders in this one) in a crowd. That would be movie magic. In the grand scheme of things, this movie punches a lot but the hits rarely hurt. It's an action movie with limited thrills.