Neil Welch Jack Reacher, loner ex-Military Police officer, visits Major Turner, a female officer he only knows from telephone calls, and finds she has been arrested. Reacher finds himself involved in uncovering - and being implicated in - a conspiracy: he and Turner go on the run. To add complication, they are saddled with a teenage girl who may or may not be Reacher's daughter.Tom Cruise plays Reacher in a second adaptation (out of order) of one of Lee Child's novels. The first one had an element of novelty to it - Reacher is an entertaining character, a principled loner, gifted at giving and taking a thumping, a good and dogged detective, and with a tendency towards pithy rejoinders - but that novelty is not present in a second offering. What is left is an action thriller with a plot which is effective, but which isn't going to surprise anyone who has watched more than half a dozen action thrillers in their life.Having said that, it is perfectly satisfactory as a basis for the suspense, chases, shoot-'em-up and beat-'em-up sequences which populate this movie. The trouble is that it all feels a bit generic - it's satisfactory entertainment while you're watching it, but there's an air of déjà vu to it.Cobie Smulders should have an underwear scene written into every film she appears in, as a point of international law.Cruise seldom offers less than value for money in terms of performance, and he is joined by Cobie Smulders as Turner, a women with nearly as much attitude and physicality as Reacher, Danika Yarosh as Samantha, Reacher's maybe/maybe-not daughter, plays her well, but the character is not very sympathetically written, and is hard to like. The villains are a mixture: some may as well have "villain" tattooed on their forehead. None is as memorable as Werner Herzog or Jai Courtney in the previous film.The action sequences are entertaining but, again, none is exceptional, and none matches the bathroom fight from Reacher's initial outing.If you enjoyed the first film then you are likely to enjoy this one, but you may feel slightly let down by a film which entertains but has nothing out of the ordinary about it.

Darkside62 There's just not much good you can say about this movie. Dialogue is forced...action scenes pretty poor and a general waste of time. I like Tom Cruise but he looks and seems too old for this role. First Reacher was better for what that's worth.

gpxdlr I saw this in the theater and enjoyed it since I'm a fan of Lee Child's books. Seeing this again on DVD, I see a few errors I don't like. Tom is in another fight being surrounded by thugs and he beats them all. Just rush in and beat his a**, don't do it one-at-a-time! Same as in the 1st Reacher film. Same as in the Samurai film. The fights I felt were poorly choreographed. Huge hard punches but no bruises or blood. Tom/Jack got 'whupped' on the roof in the final fight but no blood or visible bruises on his face after 2 vicious punches and 1 kick. "C'mon, Gimme A Break!" A little more real please. Too bad Jason Statham wasn't chosen for this. He would have been 100% better and the right physical size too.

Michael O'Keefe Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) has been on the run four years, but still enforcing his brand of justice where and when he sees it fits. Reacher off and on keeps in touch with headquarters and Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), who now heads his old investigative unit. When he discovers she has been arrested for espionage, Reacher will break her out of prison in order to prove her innocence. At the same time, he works relentlessly to bust wide open a major government conspiracy that should clear himself of a murder for which he was framed. Also in the cast: Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Holt McCallany, Robert Knepper, Madalyn Horcher and Patrick Heusinger.