After 10 Years, Tom Cruise's Forgotten 118-Minute Mystery-Thriller Is Back on Free Streaming
Prime Video's Reacher owes everything to this underrated Tom Cruise thriller..
Prime Video's Reacher owes everything to this underrated Tom Cruise thriller.
The short version
- Specifically, it was more like it than Tom Cruise , the first actor to play the character in the movies Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (now streaming free on Tubi).
- Fans had been aghast at the casting of the diminutive 5'7" Cruise, and never got over it.
- The movies did pretty well on mid-sized budgets, but Child eventually came to agree with his readers and opted to find a taller dude and reboot the adaptation for TV.
What happened
The glow of approval that surrounds Amazon's Reacher has retrospectively tainted these movies with the reputation that they're duds. The movie's sturdy and well-made, and it looks cool and moody, but these more outlandish, comic-book passages are when it comes alive.
Why it matters
It's absurd, but the whole Cruise project is, right?
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