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Originally posted by 6guns:
^^^ g! Thank you for that! That'll really help!

Jack Reacher, in 2012, was with Rosamund Pike, Robert Duvall, and Werner Hertzog as the main baddie.

Jack Reacher: No Way Back, in 2016, was with Cobie Smuthers and was the weaker of the two, in my and most viewers opinion.

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Originally posted by Loswsmith:

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Originally posted by 6guns:
^^^ g! Thank you for that! That'll really help!

Jack Reacher, in 2012, was with Rosamund Pike, Robert Duvall, and Werner Hertzog as the main baddie.

Jack Reacher: No Way Back, in 2016, was with Cobie Smuthers and was the weaker of the two, in my and most viewers opinion.

Checking the trailers on both of those, it was the 2012 I saw. But I think it deserves another viewing befor going to 2016.

After finding a pair of Rocky boots (SPM1C1-13-D-1017) this weekend for $9, I wonder if he's been wearing the same boots from the Unit days. Or if he switches those out from the thrift store. Ha. Lots of walking. Looks like he found a pair of Redwing Iron Rangers (sic Indy).

I seem to recall from one of the earlier books that Lee Child described the boots Reacher wore and I think they were some kind of European made boot.

look Hot Weather Army Combat Boots

Look like your basic, generic, mass-market, construction-looking boots from Lugz

the first Reacher book I read he was sleeping in a door way at night and a guy came along and tried to take his boots. Reacher woke up and broke the guy's arm and then felt bad about it. Seems there was some description of how much they cost and they were a bit expensive... One of the few things I identify with the character about... I only wear boots and only boots made in America. I have three pairs I wear though the week... work boots, at home around town and out in the yard boots and my Sunday go to meeting boots.

I just finished bing watching the whole thing over a day.... way over done and way too many killings... also his 'team' sure likes to point their weapons at each other when going through a building.

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Originally posted by TMats:
I appear to be almost alone, however, in being a Tom Cruise fan—without qualification. The two Reacher movies with Cruise were both much better than this series with Alan Ritchson in the title role. Cruise may be much too small for the role, but he’s much more believable as a former U.S. Army officer, and leader of a CID unit. I’ve re-watched both Cruise movies. I doubt I’ll ever watch this series from Prime again.

Not quite alone. I completely agree with you.

While I laughed out loud when I heard Tom Cruise was going to play Reacher, his two movies were much better than the series - as in not even close.

I took Amazon up on their offer to renew Prime for a week because I needed some stuff fast. Since I had Prime again, I held my nose and finished season 2 since I had already watched several episodes. Ugh. Unless there is a huge improvement, I would not even bother watching the preview for season 3.

I guess I am one of the few that liked season 2. I am easily entertained, I loved great movies back in the 80s like Commando, Cobra and Invasion USA. Nobody was trying to pick movies apart back then, we just enjoyed them for the action and body count.

I know I've been critical of season 2, but I was entertained, for the most part. Sitting through eight episodes of poor writing and sketchy acting got tedious and I think season 2 would have been better off in a 2/2.5 hour special format. The writers and actors just weren't up to anything longer.

Regarding season 3, I'll probably suffer through it just like I did season 2.

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Finished Season 2 last night.

I think it was better watched as "binged" so that all the bad script and poor acting hit you with one punch rather than a pummeling over an 8-day (or longer) time frame. I believe I watched 1st episode, then 2-3, then 4-5, and then 6-8. I was going to save episode 8 for this morning, but I will say I was curious, intrigued, and motivated enough to wrap it up last night after watching episodes 6 & 7.

The plot itself was pretty good...on the level with the first season of Jack Ryan where the bomb(s) have to be found juuuuuust in the nick of time. I found the dialogue/script was just OK, but the acting.....oh lordy....the acting! It was VERY stilted, stiff, mechanical, and robotic. It was like listening to Moonlight Sonata being played by some amateur just pounding the notes one at a time without a single thought of dynamics, phrasing, or what the music is about or enveloping any emotion whatsoever around what those notes mean.

Like others have mentioned, the fight scenes were comical...being outnumbered 2-to-1...and the spindly women taking out 250 lb., 6'3" dudes. OK...sure. To its credit, that's about the only woke bullsh*t I encountered in the series. Not sure if "Chad" was a character in the book, but if not, I guess the gay/homo wokeness crowd got their shot/agenda in there at that point. Good for them.

I don't like unbelievable and I know there are feats of strength (no....not like Festivus), but I found the helicopter sequence with Reacher grabbing and holding onto the gurney just outside the limits of even fantasy. Physics and momentum, people. There is NO WAY that could be accomplished without Reacher's grabbing onto SOMETHING inside the helo's interior. Even a "plug-type" door! Momentum would have carried them both overboard. That's where I just shake my head, roll my eyes, and suppress the urge to fast forward.

Miscellany...for whatever reason, I just KNEW Reacher's CO, LTC Fields, was going to be involved somehow. Got that one wrong. And I gotta say, it was a rather clever twist when Langston "brought out" Swan. Wasn't expecting that! Lastly, until I looked at the actor list on IMDB, it didn't hit me that A.M. (Ferdinand Kingsley) is Ben Kingsley's son. Didn't see the resemblance until I looked him up, and he looks just like his dad. I also agree with others' assessment that Tom Cruise was actually more convincing as Reacher, despite the size issue, with his character development than Ritchson.

I have not read any of the books, so I went into the theatrical presentation with unbiased eyes...not jaded by any dissimilarities with the books. Thus, overall, Season 2 WAS entertaining, but the cringe moments and bad acting would only deserve 3.0 stars maximum from me.

p.s. Nod to Terminator...Sarah Connor. Good one...

Next book will be focused on the book persuader. I’ve not read that one, I could think of other books I would’ve rather they had done.

Sounds like Maria Sten will return as Frances Neagley as well.

‘Reacher’ Will Go Undercover as Season 3’s Source Material Announced

In general, s2 was not as entertaining as s1.
While it wasn't godawful, full of social-lecturing and special effects to accentuate the implausible, the amount of poor story writing and the wooden acting contrasted against the quality of the original source material made it a disappointment.