Register  |  Sign In
View unanswered posts | View active topics It is currently Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:17 pm



Reply to topic  [ 20 posts ] 
 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back 

Rate This Film
A 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
B 29%  29%  [ 2 ]
C 57%  57%  [ 4 ]
D 14%  14%  [ 1 ]
F 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Total votes : 7

 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back 
Author Message
KJ's Leading Pundit
User avatar

Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:45 pm
Posts: 63026
Location: Tonight... YOU!
Post Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Image

Quote:
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (previously known as Jack Reacher: Never Look Back) is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Edward Zwick and written with Richard Wenk and Marshall Herskovitz. A sequel to 2012 film Jack Reacher, the film stars Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Patrick Heusinger, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh and Holt McCallany. Principal photography began on October 20, 2015 in New Orleans. The film is scheduled to be released on October 21, 2016 in IMAX[3] and conventional formats.

_________________
trixster wrote:
shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element

trixster wrote:
chippy is correct

Rev wrote:
Fuck Trump


Tue Oct 18, 2016 11:41 am
Profile
You must have big rats
User avatar

Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm
Posts: 92093
Location: Bonn, Germany
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Such a letdown.

From its marketing campaign to its title - the first film looked generic. It turned out to be a very pleasant surprise.

The sequel, however, is every single bit as generic as the marketing makes it seem, from the title to the trailers.

_________________
The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!

Image


Thu Oct 20, 2016 8:48 pm
Profile WWW
now we know
User avatar

Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm
Posts: 67000
Post 
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

A by-the-numbers investigative action thriller, with a bit of New Orleans thrown in for good measure. This "Tom Cruise Production" unfortunately pales in comparison to its predecessor, and there is no identifiable stamp by Edward Zwick either. Cruise holds his own, though he seems less engaged than in other roles. Yarosh and Smulders' presence turn this into a fairly generic, watered-down sequel. The constant female/equality angle was unneeded. And the action is slim. Most of it is talking or running. Very few fight sequences, and when it does occur it is not easy on the eye and it is quite difficult to comprehend. Oh Tom, why did you agree to do this sequel? I hate to say this, but you should have 'never gone back'. It reminded me of one of those 90s thrillers, like The Net or The Pelican Brief, and it really shouldn't have.

The Cruise fan in me will not let me grade it any lower, but this really was quite the disappointment..

B

_________________

STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
FIGHT FOR TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE
FREE TIBET
LIBERATE HONG KONG
BOYCOTT MADE IN CHINA



Fri Oct 21, 2016 3:26 am
Profile WWW
You must have big rats
User avatar

Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm
Posts: 92093
Location: Bonn, Germany
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
This quote from the We Got This Covered review sums it up well:

Quote:
A forgotten 90s genre relic that was forgotten for a reason.

_________________
The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!

Image


Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:19 am
Profile WWW
now we know
User avatar

Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm
Posts: 67000
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
A film in the style of a 90s film is perfectly fine by me, just not this film.

_________________

STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
FIGHT FOR TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE
FREE TIBET
LIBERATE HONG KONG
BOYCOTT MADE IN CHINA



Fri Oct 21, 2016 10:28 am
Profile WWW
Keeping it Light
User avatar

Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:06 am
Posts: 11185
Location: Bright Falls
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Tom Cruise is cool, and he's also cool in this but not enough to save the film. It's really just a waste to have him in the film. It's the only saving grace in an otherwise lame film. It has a few bits and pieces that are ok, but it doesn't end up working out on any level. For the first hour or so I was reasonably entertained, but soon after the halfway mark I started losing more and more interest. In the end it has become this generic film that has pushed you further away instead of closing you in. I found the whole daughter angle bad or at least poorly executed. Blood Father did that well. It was unpleasing and a too dominating thread in the film for me. So, I didn't like it very much. Might be the worst Cruise film I've seen.

C-


Fri Oct 21, 2016 12:09 pm
Profile
now we know
User avatar

Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm
Posts: 67000
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
It is the most disappointing Cruise I've seen. And it is indeed lower than by "B" suggests (that's 95% for Cruise), but there's still some good stuff in there. Smulders is just no match for the beautiful Pike. Realistically, with any other star, I'd be giving this a "C".

_________________

STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
FIGHT FOR TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE
FREE TIBET
LIBERATE HONG KONG
BOYCOTT MADE IN CHINA



Fri Oct 21, 2016 7:50 pm
Profile WWW
Pure Phase
User avatar

Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am
Posts: 34865
Location: Maryland
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is a dispiriting, incredibly mediocre sequel to one of my favorite American action films of the last decade. This second chapter, which finds lone-wolf former military policeman Reacher (Tom Cruise) attempting to exonerate his replacement (Cobie Smulders) while evading mercenaries employed by a private security company, is a testament to misguided creative decisions. At every turn, the film betrays and defuses itself. A primary blunder: sending the title character, previously defined by his self-imposed isolation and noble-but-hard worldview, on the run with an improbable nuclear family consisting of a love interest (the nicely empowered Smulders character) and a teenage girl who or may not be his biological daughter (Danika Yarosh). Call it Two Military Police and a Baby.

The daughter is a ruinous and inexplicable inclusion and a constant distraction in the form of eye-roll-inducing humor—ha, ha, human furrowed brow Reacher must contend with adolescent tantrums, ha, ha—and unearned, heavy-handed sentimentality. Tom Cruise is fine in the way he always is fine—he leaps and punches and runs with admirable athleticism and exudes matinee-idol charisma—but this is one of the most unspectacular and unambitious moments of his storied career. And the peripheral cast is extremely boring and interchangeable compared to the first's eclectic ensemble, which included Werner Herzog, David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, and Robert Duvall. In the director's chair this time is Edward Zwick, who previously directed Cruise in the rousing period epic The Last Samurai, a personal favorite of mine. But the gifted director of old-fashioned wide-screen melodramas, also known for Blood Diamond, Glory, and Legends of the Fall, is out of his element at the helm of a contemporary action-suspense film, seeming at once over- and unqualified. Excepting a modestly adrenaline-pumping climactic chase through and over a Halloween parade in New Orleans, the set pieces are lethargic and poorly staged in generic locations.

C

_________________
ImageImageImage

1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game


Sun Oct 23, 2016 1:30 pm
Profile
Pure Phase
User avatar

Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am
Posts: 34865
Location: Maryland
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
And, Christ, the actual mystery is...ugh. ;) Afghanist...zzz...empty crates...zzz...evil CEO...zzz... It is incredible how uninteresting it is. It almost becomes confusing because it is so hard to care and key into each "revelation."

The moment where Reacher smashes the grenade launcher to find the opium reminds me of an unmasking at the end of a Scooby-Doo episode. A super-forgettable Scooby-Doo episode.

_________________
ImageImageImage

1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game


Sun Oct 23, 2016 1:32 pm
Profile
You must have big rats
User avatar

Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm
Posts: 92093
Location: Bonn, Germany
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
It is insane how uninspired the film is. And that kind of baffles me because if Cruise decides to do his very first sequel to one of his own films, Mission: Impossible excluded, you'd think he'd have enough passion for it, to not let this happen. But with this film it just seems like NO ONE cared.

_________________
The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!

Image


Sun Oct 23, 2016 1:35 pm
Profile WWW
Pure Phase
User avatar

Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:33 am
Posts: 34865
Location: Maryland
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Indeed. It is unusual for a Tom Cruise production. Very flat. No real cinematic verve or pop, which the first movie definitely has: the sniper opening, the AWESOME car chase, the interplay with the legendary Duvall, etc.

Ultimately, the movie's one big decision is an awful one: giving Reacher a tag-along teenage daughter.

_________________
ImageImageImage

1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game


Sun Oct 23, 2016 1:41 pm
Profile
You must have big rats
User avatar

Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm
Posts: 92093
Location: Bonn, Germany
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Not to forget, the first one also had Richard Jenkins, another heavyweight. Veterans like Duvall and Jenkins were clearly missing from the sequel. Also, the big bad mercenary dude here actually made Jai Courtney's stone cold killer seem all the better. Not to mention that Herzog >>>>>>> Knepper.

_________________
The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!

Image


Sun Oct 23, 2016 1:46 pm
Profile WWW
now we know
User avatar

Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm
Posts: 67000
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
All of your comments sum it up very well, David.

_________________

STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
FIGHT FOR TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE
FREE TIBET
LIBERATE HONG KONG
BOYCOTT MADE IN CHINA



Sun Oct 23, 2016 7:08 pm
Profile WWW
Keeping it Light
User avatar

Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:06 am
Posts: 11185
Location: Bright Falls
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
yeah, David's review resonates a lot and well written as always.


Mon Oct 24, 2016 1:05 am
Profile
now we know
User avatar

Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm
Posts: 67000
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Now I'm just waiting for Bradley (tree and a half) to come along and give this an A+.

_________________

STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
FIGHT FOR TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE
FREE TIBET
LIBERATE HONG KONG
BOYCOTT MADE IN CHINA



Mon Oct 24, 2016 2:54 am
Profile WWW
Cream of the Crop
User avatar

Joined: Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:38 am
Posts: 2084
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is a very methodical film, which suits the character. I lked the leisurely procedural storyline grafted onto a riff on Taken. Still, I could have done with a bit more zip, and can't say I'm not a little bit disappointed in Edward Zwick's career trajectory. Cruise is solid as always and played well off of Colbie Smulders and Danika Yarosh, but this sequel is nowhere near as good as the original. *B*


Mon Oct 31, 2016 4:58 pm
Profile
The Incredible Hulk
User avatar

Joined: Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:19 pm
Posts: 509
Post Re:
Algren wrote:
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

A by-the-numbers investigative action thriller, with a bit of New Orleans thrown in for good measure. This "Tom Cruise Production" unfortunately pales in comparison to its predecessor, and there is no identifiable stamp by Edward Zwick either. Cruise holds his own, though he seems less engaged than in other roles. Yarosh and Smulders' presence turn this into a fairly generic, watered-down sequel. The constant female/equality angle was unneeded. And the action is slim. Most of it is talking or running. Very few fight sequences, and when it does occur it is not easy on the eye and it is quite difficult to comprehend. Oh Tom, why did you agree to do this sequel? I hate to say this, but you should have 'never gone back'. It reminded me of one of those 90s thrillers, like The Net or The Pelican Brief, and it really shouldn't have.

The Cruise fan in me will not let me grade it any lower, but this really was quite the disappointment..

B


Agree 100%. Cruise makes everything he is in so much better because of his presence. However the movie it self is kinda meh. I still give the movie a pass because of Tom.


Tue Nov 01, 2016 10:13 pm
Profile
Forum General

Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:48 pm
Posts: 8942
Location: Houston, Texas
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
This was such a waste of time. It might as well have been a DTV movie, because that's what it felt like the entire time. I've said it before, but I wasn't the biggest fan of the first movie, although I did enjoy it mostly because of Cruise being a badass, but not even him being cool could save this. The opening scene is easily the best part and it quickly goes down hill from there. I don't mind Cobie Smulders, but she should just stick to supporting roles in Marvel movies and by god was the daughter awful. That whole subplot was unnecessary and the story itself was very dull.


Wed Jan 04, 2017 3:07 pm
Profile
KJ's Leading Idiot

Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:15 pm
Posts: 36915
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
This was indeed like a TV movie which is very forgettable. Its hard to care for the new characters and Reacher in itself is so much different than the last one. Cruise is great but I am surprised he chose this project given his past movie choices.

4/10


Wed Jan 04, 2017 11:19 pm
Profile
The Wall
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:50 am
Posts: 16163
Location: Croatia
Post Re: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
*1/2 / ***** (D-)

I don't remember Jack Reacher at all, but I do remember it was somewhat fun? The sequel should've listened to its own device and never go back to the character. It's baffling how this movie got made. The plot makes even the worst episode of NCIS seem like a masterpiece. Should we care about a third rate Ethan Hunt knock-off (ironically played by the same actor) possibly having a daughter?

I sincerely hope that Jack Reacher is a franchise where aborted M:I plots come to die.


Fri Jan 20, 2017 5:09 pm
Profile WWW
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Reply to topic   [ 20 posts ] 

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 40 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
cron
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group.
Designed by STSoftware for PTF.