JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK (USA/China 2016) ***
Directed by Edward Zwick
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge
Review by Gilbert Seah
Director Edward Zwick (GLORY, THE LAST SAMURAI) takes over the Jack Reacher director’s reigns from Chirstopher McQuarrie in the second instalment of Tom Cruise action hero movie.
Armed with a toothbrush, this lone wolf is still out to dish the justice America needs and never gets in today’s world of corruption and politics of Trump and Clinton. At the film’s start, the cocky Reacher (Tom Cruise) is almost arrested but tells the sheriff that the phone will ring and that he and his men will be sent to jail. Of course, the prediction comes true just as the cocky hero says. But this loner is presented in this updated story with a 15-year old Samantha (Danika Yarosh) that the bad guys are after. Samantha could or could…
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