Casting Tom Cruise as the former military policeman Reacher is far-fetched to say the least. That said, this is enjoyably boisterous.

| Feb 5, 2024

There is a dogged leanness to Reacher's pursuit that lifts his adventures from the generic rut ...

| Jan 21, 2013

Ultimately, the film rises and falls on Cruise's aggressively magnetic performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 4, 2013

Jack Reacher tips constantly into self-parody and doesn't know how to signal it, like someone trying to wink at you without the benefit of eyelids.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 31, 2012

It's high-gloss tripe with noir pretensions.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 27, 2012

There's no room for Reacher in modern cinema's action crowd.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 26, 2012

Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Cruise deliver on their promise, with a witty, violent take on Reacher that makes up for its lack of height with an abundance of smarts and thrills.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 24, 2012

Jack Reacher already feels as if it belongs to another era.

| Dec 24, 2012

A workmanlike action thriller, competent but never particularly thrilling.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 24, 2012

Jack Reacher is an absurdly self-confident, sociopathically laser-focused detective-bot. That is to say, he's a hero that only Tom Cruise could love.

| Dec 24, 2012

Cruise may not be six-feet-two, but he's believable as a tough guy who can take down brawny opponents in a street fight.

| Dec 23, 2012

Robert Duvall brings a delicious zest to his scenes that almost make us forget that this is a movie in which a man is asked to bite off his own fingers.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 22, 2012

This movie is a turkey gone rancid.

| Dec 21, 2012

Werner Herzog, better known as one of the finest living directors, plays a bad guy with Teutonic relish. If he doesn't watch it, he'll have a whole other career for himself playing dead-eyed villains.

| Original Score: B | Dec 21, 2012

This is brisk, attention-grabbing, and generally unpretentious -- basically an old noir programmer inflated to blockbuster proportions.

| Dec 21, 2012

The kind of thriller that looks more old-fashioned by the minute ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 21, 2012

Reacher is limited by a lack of originality and hampered by thematic clichs and generic action sequences.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 21, 2012

Cruise is too mature, diminutive and fine-looking for the role, even if he has gym-sculpted abs, which he manages to show off.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 21, 2012

See Tom fight. See Tom shoot. See Tom in some other movie.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 21, 2012

It's touching beyond measure to see an ex-jarhead and a former soldier putting aside their differences in a display of mutual respect, understanding and shooting bad guys in the face.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2012