Jack Reacher: Never Go Back' Review
Tom Cruise, putting a dimmer on his mega-watt smile, is back busting heads in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, once again playing the ex-military-cop-turned-road-warrior in defense of the disenfranchised. Critics were snotty four years ago when Cruise first played Reacher, because the 5'7" actor is the physical opposite of the six-five, 250-pound bruiser that crime novelist Lee Child created on the page. Get over it. The admirably defiant star, still a force of nature at 54, brings his own agility and quick wit to the role. Never Go Back comes closer to nailing that concept than its predecessor, though it's marching orders are still to deliver a fun, action-plus ride. Edward Zwick, who worked with Cruise on 2003's The Last Samurai, replaces Christopher McQuarrie in the director's chair and keeps the mayhem going gangbusters – or at least enough to cover up the plot holes in the scrip, written by Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and Richard Wenk. The Cruise-Zw...