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I have faith in Tom Cruise to put a good product up on the screen. As I've said before, I've never walked out of a Cruise film having not been entertained on some level. I'm expecting that to continue with Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.
Funny, when I read his character synopsis, it brought back memories of Jon Voight's character (Jonas Hodges) in Season 7 of 24. Now that was a great character.
Also I just found out that this year the book "Make me" will be translated in my language and published here. I'm surprised they got the last book here to quickly, and even though I haven't hard too many good words for it I am definitely looking forward to adding it to my collection :)
I think Cobie is quite watchable at least.
@Creasy47, how I see it going is like this:
Knepper's Harkness character likely has a history with Reacher, and after Reacher leaves the army (maybe falling out with him), they lose contact. Fast forward to the present as Reacher is facing off against whatever villain is in this film, and Harkness and his contractor firm will likely be hired by the baddie as his personal guard/army to go up against Jack, possibly to stop him from proving his innocence (likely because the baddie or someone close to him actually did it and planned to frame Reacher for it). Harkness's character might actually believe that Reacher committed the crime, and his involvement as far as he knows it in whatever scheme the baddie is planning is honest and uncorrupted, maybe even because he trusts the baddie very much. I could see Harkness then turning his back on the baddie when he realizes Reacher wasn't really the killer, driving him to work with Jack in the finale of the film to bring justice to the villain and all that garbage.
I could be wrong, but that's where I could see it going.
Pretty close. The setting was different, and a couple of subplots were altered but for the most part it was a pretty straight adaptation, considering huge chunks of the books are focused on Reacher's deductive thoughts.
The film's motivation for the villain was a bit clearer though, from what I remember. The reasoning in the book was the same but clumsily handled, so the film improved on that. Although, they couldn't manage to make it any more interesting.
In the morning, they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon, they sent him back to school.
Night School takes Reacher back to his army days, but this time he’s not in uniform. With trusted sergeant Frances Neagley at his side, he must carry the fate of the world on his shoulders, in a wired, fiendishly clever new adventure that will make the cold sweat trickle down your spine.
Ah. I wonder if we can expect a wink to Bond where a dead body littered in the street by one of Reacher's enemies is picked up with a coffin?
Me too. It was an underrated film, with a great car chase, and I truly liked the end fight between Cruise and Courtney, because it wasn't ridiculously drawn out.
On a separate note, I really like Tom Cruise and find him to be the most unfairly maligned actor in the biz.
it also means more material for the movies .
http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/64854
The first film, thought it actually needed to be a bit more violent, but it was a decent
Thriller but nothing special. I also thought it only did moderately at the box office.
Although T Cruise does tend to put out some decent films, so I'm sure this will be good.
Good for him. IFP don't know wtf they're doing. Like most things Bond there are too many antiquated and draconian stipulations and even the the end result is mediocre at best. It's a sad state of affairs when the young Bond novels are the only consistent critically acclaimed pieces of Bond output in years.