Twelve years after making his feature-directorial debut with
Way of the Gun, Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (
The Usual Suspects) brings Lee Child’s itinerant problem solver to the screen in
Jack Reacher, a mediocre Tom Cruise mystery thriller that’s entertaining in the moment but instantly forgettable.
When a crazed sniper guns down five seemingly random people on a crowded Pittsburgh riverfront, Det. Emerson (David Oyelowo) quickly amasses enough evidence at the scene to implicate an unstable ex-military sniper named James Barr (Joseph Sikora). Upon being questioned by Emerson and DA Alex Rodin (Richard Jenkins), however...
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2012
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