Reacher (2022)

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   Earring72

   Have to admit, this was MUCH better than expected. Love the book series and this was true to the book. Think I would prefer it as a movie but works well as a series too.
   
   Cast is pretty good and the action is good. Could have skipped a episode or 2 though.
   
   Very enjoyable 2 years 1 month ago
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   Siskoid

   With every fan of the Jack Reacher book series up in arms about how miscast Tom Cruise was in the movies, the Reacher series (no Jack, presumably because Prime also has a Jack Ryan series) had a vested interest in making its protagonist a huge hunk of a man. Alan Ritchson fits the bill (to the point where early on, there was something of an uncanny valley for me and I wondered if he was a digital construct), but I'm not entirely convinced by his acting ability. It works for the character, but a smoldering intensity does a lot of the work, and more texture and comic timing could have enhanced the performance. These first episodes are based on the very first book, Killing Floor, and I guess they aren't doing them chronologically regardless as season 2 has been announced to adapt Book 11, but this opening shot, at least, is a lot of fun. Reacher walks into the most corrupt town in America and gets to killing bad guys when the stakes actually get personal. The action is pretty legit, the supporting cast is engaging (it's a shame Reacher's wandering ways won't keep more of them around), the comedy works well, and the mystery is interesting (even if I didn't necessarily keep all the character names straight at all times). I'm well game for a second round of these.
   
   With its second season, Reacher becomes more television-like (derogatory) by using his old team, the 101, as a cast of people almost as competent as he is. It also has an over-reliance on catch phrases which we hear repeated again and again, taking the thrill off their final payoffs. The story, based on the novel Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child, has Reacher catch up with what's left of that team when one of them is found dead, tipping them off to a high-level conspiracy that involves an arms merchant with a penchant for comic books (which DOESN'T pay off, annoyingly). When Reacher was interacting with normal people in Season 1, the contrast made the show sing. Here, most of his allies know him already (and I'm more interested in the flashbacks to an old 101 investigation where he's still a surprise to people) and the group kind of devolves into a murder squad and Reacher is practically psychotic. Righteous self-defense, a lot of this is NOT. Still often fun, but it's the second Rambo movie to Season 1's First Blood, y'know? 1 year 3 months ago

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