Jack Reacher
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It’s well-established that Tom Cruise is too short to play the Jack Reacher of Lee Child’s novels, a broad-shouldered giant of an ex-military policeman described by the author in terms usually reserved for horror movie beasts. But between Cruise’s often steely, obsessive screen persona and his multiple-decades-long career as a leading man, he’s built up a gravitas that translates to “menace” easily, and he’s effective in “Jack Reacher,” adapted by Christopher McQuarrie (“Way of the Gun,” “ The Usual Suspects “) from the novel “One Shot.” Even when he’s laughing and grinning, Cruise seems like the sort of person one wouldn’t want to cross. He can also do icy minimalism (see Michael Mann’s “ Collateral ” for proof), and that’s the mode McQuarrie is operating in here, so it’s an effective match of leading man and filmmaker, even though the overall impact is that of a superior proof-of-concept pilot for a TV show rather than a rich stand-alone film.
The story begins when a man drives a van into the parking garage across the Allegheny River from a stadium and murders five people with a sniper rifle. Local cops pull a fingerprint from a quarter deposited in a parking meter near the garage where the killer set up and arrest ex-Army sniper James Barr ( Joseph Sikora ). Detective Calvin Emerson ( David Oyelowo ) and District Attorney Alex Rodin ( Richard Jenkins ) offer Barr a choice between confessing to the crimes and going to prison for life. Barr adds a third option: writing “Get Jack Reacher” on a notepad.
Reacher, who came to Pittsburgh after watching TV news coverage of the shootings, visits Barr in the hospital, where he’s in a coma with memory loss after having been attacked by fellow inmates during incarceration. Reacher meets Barr’s defense attorney, Helen Rodin ( Rosamund Pike ), who happens to be the D.A.’s daughter. The case has a few peculiar details, notably the fingerprinted quarter: what sort of mass murderer pays for parking? What really happened here?
Helen and Reacher (they call him Reacher, almost never Jack) discuss the incident and embark on their own investigation. Well, not exactly: Reacher drives the movie to such a degree that it makes Cruise seem insecure as a leading man (he’s more generous in the “Mission: Impossible” movies). He does most of the talking here, trying out his own theories and picking apart Helen’s. Mostly Helen is there to (1) help Reacher do things he doesn’t have the clearance or access to do for himself, (2) be proved wrong or made to seem naive, and (3) get kidnapped and used as a hostage/leverage in the final stretch of the movie.
Reacher is a sharp and often sardonic investigator in the books and usually becomes the alpha in whatever room he’s in. But there’s something misguided in this film’s tone. It tips things so that we spend two hours watching Reacher be right about (almost) everything. Helen isn’t insulted or degraded by the movie, but she’s not respected, either, and almost every person who dares step to Reacher gets his butt handed to him in a lunchpail. That gets dull after a while. If Cruise weren’t so naturally intense and the filmmaking so assured, it would have gotten dull a lot faster.
The mystery ultimately leads us to the bad guys, but they’re introduced to the audience long before Helen and Reacher figure out how they’re involved in the mass murder and why they engineered it the first place. The chief henchman is a Reacher-like paramilitary badass played by Jai Courtney . The Big Bad is a gangster posing as a legitimate businessman who goes by the ominous one-syllable name Zec (Russian for “prisoner”) and is played by director Werner Herzog .
Zec is a cipher, more a satanic presence than a man. It makes sense that Cruise and McQuarrie would decide to fill the part with somebody who is as much of a “brand” in his own way as Cruise. Herzog has chronicled so much madness and evil as a director that it’s rubbed off on him by osmosis, even though he comes across as a cheerful eccentric when discussing his art. His work in “Jack Reacher” is one of the best pieces of director stunt casting since Martin Scorsese played the president of Geritol in “ Quiz Show .” Herzog brings menace and a hint of cosmic irony to the role, making it feel like a statement rather than a gimmick. Zec is a man who has not just seen hell, but purchased real estate.
There’s another cagey old veteran in the cast: Robert Duvall , who acted with Cruise in “Days of Thunder.” He plays Marine Gunnery Sgt. Martin Cash, who helps Reacher go after the bad guys and is an artist with a rifle. The scenes between Cruise and Duvall are the most pleasurable in the film. Duvall often seems to be busting Cruise’s chops, more so than Cash busting Reacher’s. This levels out Cruise’s control-freak approach to the “hero” part. Duvall is a thousand-pound bull of an actor: Cruise seems to know he’ll get the best results by waving a cape at him, then stepping aside to let him gallop and kick.
McQuarrie deserves credit for having enough faith in the power of his filmmaking to limit himself to a handful of self-contained action scenes, none of which are big by modern Hollywood standards, and make them feel wild, messy and harrowing rather than hide inside of the software-buffed vague digital slickness that has become so common. A fight between Reacher and three men in a house, two of whom corner him in a bathtub and try to kill him with bats, feels real even when Reacher is making like 1980s Schwarzenegger and using one man’s head as a makeshift bowling ball to beat another man’s face in.
Cruise has that Harrison Ford gift for acting his way through action and reacting to things the way we might, even if we had the hero’s experience and training. The movie is never funner or more exciting than when Reacher is facing off against men whose machismo has poisoned the part of their brain that produces common sense and who fail to read Reacher as somebody who makes promises, not threats. Sometimes things will get intense even by Reacher’s standards and he’ll throw off a reaction that says, “I can’t believe I’m in a life-or-death situation for the fourth time this week” right before he rallies and neutralizes the people who are causing him problems.
The climax should serve as a model for anybody hoping to stage comprehensible action in a vast, dimly lit space (the cinematographer is Caleb Deschanel , who shot “ The Black Stallion ,” “ The Right Stuff ” and other classics). Every moment is so cleanly conveyed that you could write out a police report and not forget anything important. “Reacher” is a solid mystery-action picture, made memorable by the caliber of craft that its cast and crew brings to the table.
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- Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher
- Rosamund Pike as Helen Rodin
- Richard Jenkins as D.A. Alex Rodin
- David Oyelowo as Det. Emerson
- Werner Herzog as Zec Chelovek
- Jai Courtney as Charlie
- Robert Duvall as Martin Cash
- Vladimir Sizov as Vlad
- Joseph Sikora as James Barr
- Nicole Forester as Nancy Holt
- Michael Raymond-James as Linsky
- Alexia Fast as Sandy
- Josh Helman as Jeb Oliver
- James Martin Kelly as Rob Farrior
- Dylan Kussman as Gary
- Denver Milord as Punk
- Susan Angelo as Oline Archer
- Julia Yorks as Chrissie Farrior
- Delilah Picart as Rita Coronado
- Joe Coyle as Darren Sawyer
- Alicia Murton as Mrs. Sawyer
- Peter Gannon as Mr. Archer
- David Whalen as Mr. Holt
- Tristan Elma as Marcos Coronado
- Sophie Guest as Little Girl
- Michael Minor as Eyewitness
- Scott A. Martin as Wesley
- CJ Ramirez as Secretary
- Teri Clark as Night Manager
- Jarid Faubel as Man on Bus
- Sara Lindsey as Woman on Bus
- Jace Jeanes as Zec's Thug
- Andrei Runtso as Zec's Thug
- Efka Kvaraciejus as Zec's Thug
- Lee Child as Desk Sergeant
- Tommy Lafitte as Man with Ballcap
- Kristen Dalton as Mindy
- Jordan Trovillion as Goodwill Cashier
- Annie Kitral as Pawn Shop Cashier
- Lissy Gulick as Diner Waitress
- Catherine Albers as Jeb's Mom
- Larissa Emanuele as Sportsbar Waitress
- Jason McCune as Construction Foreman
- Shane Callahan as SWAT Guy
- Joshua Elijah Reese as SWAT Guy
- Nathan Hollabaugh as Cop
- Christopher Stadulis as Cop
- Joe Fishel as SWAT Officer (uncredited)
- Robert Liscio as Man in Bar (uncredited)
- Ronn Surels as Jeb's Wingman (uncredited)
- Jackson Nunn as Passenger / Bar Guy (uncredited)
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- Josh Sutherland
- Mark Edward Wright
Supervising Sound Editor
- Alan Rankin
- Mark P. Stoeckinger
- Alice Rietveld
- Amy Lynn Tuttle
- Eddie Perez
- Janene Carleton
- Kimberly Shannon Murphy
- Peter Epstein
- Ronn Surels
- Zack Duhame
Set Costumer
- Alison Evans
- Melanie Cargioli
Utility Sound
- Amishjim Schulze
- Kelly Roofner
Unit Production Manager
- Andrew Saxe
Hair Department Head
- Angel De Angelis
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Anna Behlmer
- Terry Porter
Visual Effects Supervisor
- Bryan Godwin
- Mike Uguccioni
Camera Operator
- BJ McDonnell
Steadicam Operator
Sound effects editor.
- Bruce Tanis
Visual Effects Coordinator
- Caitlin Atherton
- Rachel Faith Hanson
Director of Photography
- Caleb Deschanel
Stunt Double
- Casey O’Neill
Boom Operator
- Chad Djubek
- Michael Piotrowski
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- Charlene Amateau
- Charles Baden
- Roger Mocenigo
- Shoban Narayanan
- Travis Wade Ivy
- Chris Ervin
- Cody Brunty
- Doug Spilatro
- Juan Álvarez
- Chris Navarro
- Jerry Gilbert
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- Chris Palermo
- Clay Cullen
- Jimmy N. Roberts
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- Christa Munro
- Christopher McQuarrie
First Assistant Director
- Cliff Lanning
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Executive producer.
- Dana Goldberg
- David Ellison
- Kevin J. Messick
- Paul Schwake
Visual Effects Producer
- Daniel Chavez
Second Assistant Director
- David Kelley
- Deanna Leslie
- Rhys Summerhayes
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- David Stanke
Executive Visual Effects Producer
- David Van Dyke
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- Denise Luiso
2D Supervisor
- Denise O’Neill
Second Unit Director
- Dixon McPhillips
- Paul Jennings
- Don Granger
- Gary Levinsohn
- Paula Wagner
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- Douglas A. Mowat
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- Elaine Perlmann
Assistant Director
- Eric Yellin
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- George A. Weimerskirch
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- Greg Loskorn
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- Harimander Singh Khalsa
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- Jale Parsons
- Valy Lungoccia
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- James D. Bissell
- James Eidel
- Kelli French
- Nancy Thompson
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- James Kawano
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- Jay Meagher
- Jim Emswiller
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- Jay Wilkinson
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- Jenn Albaugh
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- Jessica Lichtner
- Marvel Wakefield
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- Joe Kraemer
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- John Finklea
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- Kirby Adams
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- Lindsay Feldman
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- Marianne Skiba
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- Markus Mentzer
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- Michelle Christensen
Second Second Assistant Director
- Mikey Eberle
- Walter E. Myal
- Mindy Marin
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- Mitch Paulson
Key Hair Stylist
- Nancy Keslar
Stunt Coordinator
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- Peter Gelfman
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- Sarah Monzani
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- Scott Curtis
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor
- Shane Strickman
Post Production Supervisor
- Susan E. Novick
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- Susan Matheson
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- Tamas Kurina
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- A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper responsible for a mass shooting.
- In an innocent heartland city, five are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest the culprit, and build a slam-dunk case. But instead of confessing, the accused man writes the words, "Get Jack Reacher." Reacher himself sees the news report and turns up in the city. The defense is immensely relieved, but Reacher has come to bury the guy. Shocked at the accused's request, Reacher sets out to confirm for himself the absolute certainty of the man's guilt, but comes up with more than he bargained for. — Anonymous
- When 5 seemingly random people are shot by a sniper an investigation leads the police to former Army sniper who has a history of shooting people in the streets when he was in the Army. When he meets his lawyer, Alex Rodin, all he tells her is to find Jack Reacher. She learns that Reacher is a former Army Criminal Investigator. Reacher upon hearing the news arrives. He learns Rodin wants him to help her defend the guy but Reacher doesn't want to help him. It seems that Reacher was the one who investigated the shootings he committed when he was in the Army but the Army opted not to prosecute. He told the man that if he did it again, Reacher will come after him. Reacher agrees to look into it if Rodin tries to look at the people he killed. She does and Reacher goes to tell her that the shootings were not the man's m.o. Reacher suspects someone is framing him. So he and Rodin try to find out why and who. — [email protected]
- When a sniper shoots randomly five victims, Detective Emerson finds evidence to incriminate the former paranoid marine James Barr. It is an easy case for the prosecutor Rodin, but Barr refuses to sign the confession and he calls Jack Reacher. When he is transported to prison in a bus, the other prisoners beat him and Barr goes to the hospital in coma. The pacifist attorney Helen Rodin, who is the daughter of the prosecutor, decides to defend him but Jack Reacher is a former military criminal investigator that left the army and has become an unknown drifter. Out of the blue, Jack appears in the city and Helen invites him to work for her investigating the case. Soon he finds that the culprit is innocent and there is a conspiracy behind the murders. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 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, Barr demands to speak with Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise). A former military investigator who fell off the grid following his service, Reacher soon shows up on the scene and begins gathering clues with the aid of talented defense attorney Helen Rodin (Rosamund Pike), the daughter of the DA. Meanwhile, when Reacher is assaulted in a local bar, he correctly surmises that someone is determined to impede his investigation. His theory plays out when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a young woman shortly thereafter. Now, with the police closing in from one side and a gang of ruthless killers gaining ground on the other, Reacher must use his formidable detective skills in order to catch the gunman and uncover his true motives. — ahmetkozan
- In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a man drives a van into a parking garage across the Allegheny River from PNC Park and, after paying for parking, readies a sniper rifle. He takes aim and appears to randomly kill five people around the stadium and on the river's North Shore Trail before fleeing in the van. The police soon arrive, headed by Detective Emerson, and they discover a shell casing as well as the coin used to pay for parking. A fingerprint taken from the coin points to James Barr, a former U.S. Army sniper. When the police raid his house, they find the van, equipment for making bullets, the rifle in question, and Barr who they arrest. During an interrogation by Emerson and the District Attorney, Alex Rodin (Richard Jenkins), Barr writes "Get Jack Reacher" on a notepad. Reacher (Tom Cruise) is a drifter and former U.S. Army Military Police Corps officer. Reacher later arrives in Pittsburgh after seeing a news report about Barr and the shooting. Emerson and Robin deny Reacher's request to view the evidence, but agree to let him see Barr, who was brutally attacked by fellow inmates while being transported and is now in a coma. While there, he meets Barr's defense attorney, counselor Helen Rodin (Rosamund Pike), the DA's daughter, who is trying to save Barr from the death penalty. Helen says she can arrange for Reacher to see the evidence if he will become her lead investigator. Reacher retorts that he is not interested in clearing Barr. He confidentially reveals that Barr previously had gone on a killing spree during his tour in Iraq but was not prosecuted because the victims were under investigation for major crimes (sexual assault rally of 28 Iraqi women in 4 days) -and the U.S. Army wants them forgotten. Reacher then vowed that if Barr tried anything like this again, he would take him down. Jack is sure that James is guilty but is puzzled that instead of confessing James asked for Jack Reacher to be called, fully knowing that Jack Reacher would kill James if he again found him to be guilty. Reacher agrees to investigate if Helen visits the victims' families to learn about the people murdered that day. Reacher goes to the crime scene and finds inconsistencies with this location, and thinking a trained shooter would have committed the killings from the cover of the van on the nearby Fort Duquesne Bridge. After Helen reports her findings about the victims to Reacher, he suggests that the owner of a local construction company was the intended victim, with the killing of other random victims intended to cover up that fact. After a seemingly random bar fight, Reacher realizes that someone is attempting to strong-arm him into dropping his investigation. Reacher is later framed for the murder of the young woman who was paid to instigate that bar fight, but this only motivates him further. Before her death, Jack had traced her & found that the man paying her was only known as the Zec. Jack gets Zec's address from the girl & goes there. He is attacked by Russians, but escapes. Jack speaks to Helen & theorizes that maybe James was framed. The only evidence that puts James on the scene of the crime is a coin, with his fingerprint, that James allegedly used to pay for parking. Jack thinks that James asked for him because James believed that Jack would find the truth, no matter how much Jack believed James to be the criminal. Jack thinks that somehow the Russian mafia took James's fingerprint & DNA & planted it at the shooting site to frame James for the killing. Jack had noticed a car following him since he joined the investigation. A number check reveals that the car is registered to a front company owned by the Russian mafia who wanted to buy a construction company to increase their legit presence. The owner of the company wasn't willing to sell & had sued the Russian front company. Jack theorizes that the mafia got the owner of the company murdered & killed 4 random people in the vicinity to cover up the intended victim. Reacher eventually follows a lead at a shooting range in the neighboring state of Ohio, owned by former U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Cash, who will only talk if Reacher proves his sniping skills, which he does. Cash tells Jack that James was his best shooter & always hit bulls' eye at 700 yards. But Jack contests this theory by saying that James was never this good a shooter in the army. Jack thinks that James was accompanied by a friend, who switched the target sheets to make James look like an expert. Video recording tapes show that James was always with a guy whom Jack saw as part of the mafia team attacking him. The real perpetrators are members of a Russian gang masquerading as legitimate businessmen. The gang's elderly leader spent much of his life in a Soviet Gulag and is known only as the Zec (prisoner). The gang kidnaps Helen with the aid of their accomplice police detective Emerson and holds her hostage at a construction site or mine. Reacher outwits the mob guards, killing them with Cash's help. Jack tells Emerson before killing him that nobody would have checked the parking meter, not even him, & that's how he knew Emerson was involved. He then confronts the Zec about the conspiracy. The Zec is killed by Reacher after the Zec asserts that the other conspirators who were killed by Reacher were the only witnesses against the Zec, and that Reacher would more likely be the one to go to prison as a drifter accused of murdering a young woman. Reacher and Cash flee the scene, making Reacher a wanted man, but with confidence that Helen will clear his name. When Barr awakens from his coma, he tells Helen that he has no recent memory but believes that he must be guilty of the shooting. Barr's mental reconstruction of how he would have committed the shootings confirms Reacher's theory was correct from the beginning to Helen's father. Still unknowing of all this, Barr is willing to confess and accept punishment, fearing that Reacher will mete out justice if the law does not.
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Jack Reacher: Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. With Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, David Oyelowo. A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper responsible for a mass shooting.
Jack Reacher is a 2012 American action thriller film [3] [4] written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Tom Cruise and based on Lee Child's 2005 novel One Shot. Cruise portrays the title character and the supporting cast features Rosamund Pike, Werner Herzog, Robert Duvall, David Oyelowo, Richard Jenkins, and Jai Courtney.
Jack Reacher Trailer 2012 - Official movie teaser in HD - starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Robert Duvall - directed by Christopher McQuarrie - a homicide ...
Jack Reacher. Action. 130 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2012. Matt Zoller Seitz. April 16, 2024. 6 min read. It’s well-established that Tom Cruise is too short to play the Jack Reacher of Lee Child’s novels, a broad-shouldered giant of an ex-military policeman described by the author in terms usually reserved for horror movie beasts.
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Jack Reacher is an above-average crime thriller with a smoothly charismatic performance from Tom Cruise. Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC. Casting Tom Cruise as the former military...
When a sniper shoots randomly five victims, Detective Emerson finds evidence to incriminate the former paranoid marine James Barr. It is an easy case for the prosecutor Rodin, but Barr refuses to sign the confession and he calls Jack Reacher.
When a horrible crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: “Get Jack Reacher!”. 33,162. IMDb 7.0 2 h 10 min 2012 X-Ray HDR UHD PG-13. Suspense • Drama • Malicious • Tense. Watch with Paramount+.
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One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military sniper who is quickly brought into custody. The interrogation yields one written note: 'Get Jack Reacher!'.