Original Jack Reacher director Christopher McQuarrie has been replaced by The Last Samurai director Ed Zwick, and with McQuarrie goes the calculated suspense, the vicious bite, the cavalier meanness and intimidatingly violent blanket of machismo that wrapped around the first movie. and his former Army base, only to learn that Turner has been arrested, and a growing conspiracy threatens to swallow Reacher, as well.īehind the scenes, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back makes one dramatic substitution that, to me, makes all the difference between success and failure. Intrigued by the voice on the other end of the line, Reacher slowly makes his way back to Washington, D.C. True, the Reacher books primarily act as standalone stories, but Never Go Back arrives at the end of a loose arc that saw the wandering anti-hero (played, once again, by Cruise) connecting with Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), the new head of Reacher's old military outfit whom he only knows through telephone conversations.
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Lee Child's Never Go Back strikes me as an odd choice as the inspiration for a second Jack Reacher novel, because - as readers of the series will know - the storyline takes place so late in the character's ongoing history.
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