Reacher is wrongly accused of murder by the crooked authorities, and in time-honoured style goes on the run, taking his quasi-spouse and daughter, while blowing the lid off a terrible conspiracy. Clearly she is the victim of a shady cover-up from corrupt top brass, and Reacher’s quietly furious demands to know what’s going on are undermined when the army claims he is the subject of a paternity case, and that he is the dad of a stroppy teen, Samantha (Danika Yarosh). A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. But when Jack shows up in Washington DC for their blind date, he is informed that Lt Turner has been arrested for espionage. She is played by Cobie Smulders (who plays Agent Maria Hill in the Avengers films). A clumsily condensed mystery/thriller novel made into a movie that offers.

The story opens as Reacher has rather sweetly fallen for Lt Susan Turner, just through talking to her on the phone. Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) leaps off the pages of Lee. I was surprised in the first Jack Reacher movie that Cruise made, and found both of his movies were of.

Cruise also gives us his some vintage sprinting - now as distinctive a trait as Nic Cage’s sudden shouting - as well as a bit of free climbing and some Olympic-quality ledge dangling. His acting on screen stays true to the books story lines.

Another Reacher trope is the grumpy solo meal in the scuzzy cafe, which generally comes just before or after the biggest Reacher signature of all: beating the daylights out of five or six bullies whose sneery expressions and close-cropped goatees denote imminent victim status more clearly than red shirts on Star Trek crew.

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