Turner is reduced to frantically re-trying passwords to access her email account, while Sam is largely there to be imperilled and, preferably, rescued. And sure, that gives Cruise some new dynamics to play – which he does well – but as with the car chase in the last film, new dynamics are not what this character is about.įor all that the film bends over backwards to give Reacher companions to bounce off, it doesn't do much with them once they're there. That's no criticism of Yarosh, who gives her a few nice touches, but it once again feels fundamentally atypical for Reacher. Certainly the bad guys think she is, so Reacher rescues her and acquires a teen sidekick who threatens to be as annoying as all these teens are. The big complication this time is Sam (Danika Yarosh), apparently Reacher's daughter from a relationship during his time in uniform. There are a few decent chase scenes and a good fight in a restaurant kitchen - where Reacher, unusually, gets his ass handed to him - as well as a cool and rather subtle confrontation aboard a plane. While the last film had Werner Herzog, rather brilliantly, as its bad guy, here we get a bunch of largely interchangeable assassins (led by Patrick Heusinger’s "The Hunter") and just one sneering corporate monster (Robert Knepper). Reacher's ability to stop a fight just by standing up is an important part of his character, and while we, the audience, know that Tom Cruise can handle himself, it is not necessarily obvious to any group of onscreen ne'er-do-wells. Of course normally, physical resemblance or lack thereof should not disqualify a star – consider the 6'2" Hugh Jackman as the 5'3" Wolverine – and we had this conversation last time for 2012’s Jack Reacher, but it bears repeating. Those stats above mean that he should be roughly the same size as the Rock.
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But Reacher is not such a layered character that he requires a great actor (which Cruise is) he’s a force of nature, who requires a man-mountain who can crack the occasional one-liner while he cracks heads. Basically, he gives the emotionally buttoned-up Reacher a pretty good try. He's charismatic enough to almost convince as a one-man army, and those mega-watts of star quality do, almost, allow him to get away with it. Tom Cruise is a bit like Batman: he is trained and honed to the peak of human physical perfection.