This week, Tom Cruise explores the road not taken with Christopher McQuarrie’s 2012 action-thriller Jack Reacher. Is Cruise a bad match for Lee Child’s drifter hero? How can a car chase be so boring? What’s harder: walking, or talking?
Unanswered Questions:
- What is the political or philosophical connection between Reacher and the Zek?
- How does Lee Child’s British perspective on Americanism manifest itself in the text?
- How indebted is the script to the original novel?
Further reading:
- Lee Child
- One Shot (2005)
- Gone Girl (2014)
- In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
- The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
- The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
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Join us next week for the first of Cruise’s back-to-back high-concept sci-fi adventures, Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion.
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