{"id":13987,"date":"2017-01-15T16:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T00:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=13987"},"modified":"2017-01-15T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T00:32:36","slug":"review-jackreacher-uhd-bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2017\/01\/review-jackreacher-uhd-bd\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back 4K\/BD + Screen Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Jack Reacher: Never Go Back<\/em><\/strong> wasn\u2019t quite an ill-advised sequel but it certainly was unnecessary. As someone who hasn\u2019t read a single Lee Child novel, I never had a problem with Cruise\u2019s casting but here this was a forgettable action-thriller that is worth a rental but nothing more.<\/p>\n

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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back<\/span>
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Genre(s): <\/strong>Action, Suspense\/Thriller
\nParamount | PG13 \u2013 118 min. \u2013 $49.99 | January 31, 2017<\/p>\n

Date Published:<\/strong> 01\/15\/2017 | Author:<\/strong> The Movieman<\/span><\/p>\n

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MOVIE INFO:
\n<\/u>Directed by: <\/strong>Edward Zwick
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Lee Child (novel); Richard Wenk and Edward Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz (screenplay)
\nCast: <\/strong>Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger, Holt McCallany, Jessica Stroup<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DISC INFO:
\n<\/u>Features: <\/strong>Featurettes
\nDigital Copy: <\/strong>Yes
\nFormats Included: <\/strong>4K UHD, Blu-ray
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Audio: <\/strong>English (Dolby Atmos\/TrueHD 7.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1), Portuguese (Dolby Digital 5.1)
\nVideo (UHD): <\/strong>2160p\/Widescreen 2.39
\nVideo (BD): <\/strong>1080p\/Widescreen 2.39
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>English SDH, English French, Portuguese, Spanish
\nDisc Size: <\/strong>NA
\nCodec: <\/strong>HEVC\/H.265 (UHD), MPEG-4 AVC (BD)
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>A, B, C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The year of unwanted sequels continued with Jack Reacher: Never Go Back<\/em><\/strong>, a movie which isn\u2019t bad but frankly, although the first was pretty damn entertaining, in part for a crazy scary performance by Jai Courtney of all people, there really was no reason for this to exist. It also hurts when it\u2019s a script that could\u2019ve been written in the \u201890s.<\/p>\n

Jack Reacher (TOM CRUISE) is back, on his own righting wrongs but this time he has help from Colonel Susan Turner (COBIE SMULDERS), a woman he\u2019s only spoken to over the phone but has saved his butt on his missions, the latest taking down a corrupt town sheriff. With some forced chemistry between Reacher and Turner, the two agree to have dinner when he comes to Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

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Following a montage over the opening credits, Reacher hitchhikes and trains to D.C. and upon his arrival, is informed that Turner has been arrested for espionage. Despite being told by her lawyer not to help \u2013 a meeting where Reacher also discovers he\u2019s a father after a woman he doesn\u2019t remember filed for back child support \u2013 he is forced to when it\u2019s clear a conspiracy where both of their lives are in danger, compounded when he\u2019s arrested for murder; he\u2019s taken to the same military prison as Turner, and just in the nick of time as assassins are just arriving to take them both down. Luckily Reacher being Reacher, he\u2019s able to facilitate both of their escapes.<\/p>\n

Adding to the mix, thanks to Reacher being followed (strange when he\u2019s able to perceive being watched and when he\u2019s not), is his maybe-daughter, Samantha (DANIKA YAROSH), whose life is also in danger from a pursuing assassin credited only as \u201cThe Hunter\u201d (PATRICK HEUSINGER) working for a government contractor General Harkness (ROBERT KNEPPER), a company shipping weapons to and from Afghanistan. There\u2019s a whole semi-convoluted plot involving this company making more money than they should, assassinated investigators who working under Turner, etc.<\/p>\n

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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back<\/em><\/strong>, as I said, is hardly terrible but it\u2019s unfortunately not very memorable either. Tom Cruise is, pardon the expression, on cruise control at this point but he at least has a few decent stunts especially the finale and Cobie Smulders is more or less serviceable but shares very little chemistry with Cruise; Aldis Hodge, an actor I\u2019ve become a fan of, has a small role as the man tasked to capture Reacher and Co.; and the young Danika Yarosh (Shameless<\/em>, Heroes Reborn<\/em>) considering the character was, from what I\u2019ve read online, much expanded from the novel.<\/p>\n

The film was directed by Edward Zwick and taking over for Christopher McQuarrie who has moved on up to the Mission: Impossible<\/em> franchise; Zwick reunites with Cruise from 2004\u2019s fantastic war-drama The Last Samurai<\/em> and all I can say about his direction is… it\u2019s competent, pointing and shooting the camera making the fights look discernible. Yeah, faint praise.<\/p>\n

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In the end, as much as I enjoyed the first Jack Reacher<\/em>, I can\u2019t say there was a need, or want, for a sequel. Sure, it\u2019s serviceable enough of a film but as I\u2019m coming across more and more, Never Go Back<\/em><\/strong> is more throwaway entertainment, a perfect rental but only a single viewing (and I have little doubt in 2-3 years time, it\u2019ll air on TNT).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 3.5\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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This release comes with a semi-glossy, title-embossed slip cover<\/strong>. Inside is a Blu-ray Copy<\/u><\/strong> and redemption code for the Digital HD<\/u><\/strong> copy.<\/p>\n

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