Tonight on Netflix: Between two Mission Impossibles, Tom Cruise gives us this great, unfairly forgotten action flick

In December 2012, Tom Cruise came to our cinemas, between two Mission Impossible movies, to bring us an action feature film that is a little off the beaten track: Jack Reacher! Please note that this work is leaving the Netflix platform on January 3rd! Hurry up to see! So the story takes us to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A sniper shoots 5 people at random from the parking lot across the river and runs away. The suspect is identified and arrested quickly; His name is James Barry and he is a former soldier in the US Army. When interrogated, he utters only one sentence: “Find Jack Reacher.” During his transfer, Bar is attacked by inmates and falls into a coma.

Jack Reacher, an ex-military policeman who lives in solitude, presents himself to the investigators. Then he meets Barry’s lawyer, a certain Helen Roden. The latter asks him for help in investigating the murder. Thus, Reacher discovers inconsistencies at the crime scene and notices that he is being followed. The duo discovers that the truth lies elsewhere and that the real sponsors will stop at nothing!

Jack Reacher is a kind of explosive mix between Jason Bourne, James Bond and Ethan Hunt from Mission Impossible! Tom Cruise excels as this silent special agent who doesn’t hesitate to use his fists to fight the bad guys!

The film is based on Lee Child’s novel, One Shot, the ninth volume in the Jack Reacher saga. One Shot was also the first title to be considered for adaptation. This ninth installment has sold more than 60 million copies worldwide.

It’s a matter of size

Moreover, in Lee Child’s original novel, Jack Reacher is 1.96 meters tall. Tom Cruise’s height is 1.70 meters. This physical difference caused controversy among fans of the book. However, the author overruled the objection by having Tom Cruise “Talent and that he will become a successful Reacher”. The writer adds: “With another actor you can have 100% of the height but 90% of Jack Reacher, with Tom you have 100% of Jack Reacher with 90% of the height.”

Tom Cruise also beat up a certain Dwayne Johnson who dreamed of playing the ex-soldier on screen, as he revealed in a 2021 Instagram video: “Was there a role I really wanted but lost to another actor? Yes. That role was Jack Reacher. That actor was Tom Cruise.”– trusted Rock.

“Business is business, and I’m happy for it. But the world turns strangely, because a door was closed to me, another one opened to me to invent a zero character and which was in my DNA: Luke Hobbs. Thank you. You.he concluded, referring to his role in the Fast and Furious saga.

Jack Reacher would be a success, grossing $218 million worldwide on a $60 million budget. Thus, the sequel will release in 2016 but will not achieve the same success with a score of Rs 162 crore for the same budget as the first. Note that a TV series will see the light of day in 2022, where the actor will physically match Alan Ritchson’s Colossus, the Reacher of the books.