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36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The PlaylistDrew TaylorThe PlaylistDrew TaylorIn terms of pure pop entertainment value, you'll be hard-pressed to find a more smartly constructed, beautifully shot, pulse-pounding movie this holiday season.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyTom Cruise is in fine form as mysterious tough guy Jack Reacher finally reaches the big screen.
- 80Total FilmJames MottramTotal FilmJames MottramA superior thriller, with Cruise and McQuarrie slotting together like a bullet in a clip. Like Reacher on the firing range, the aim isn't always true – but the misses are fractional.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThis is Cruise's show. And he nails it. The patented smile is gone, replaced by a glower that makes Jack Reacher a dark and dazzling ride into a new kind of hell.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceCruise is definitely too short for the gig, but in this first fight, he proves his tough-guy chops. Outraged Reacher readers can stand down.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThat Cruise fails to make a case for Reacher's allure, though, has less to do with physical dissonance than it does with the film's inability - stupefying inability, really - to otherwise make a case for the character's originality in a movie so choked with visual clichés and dreadfully moldy dialogue.
- 50VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeReacher is a brawny action figure whose exploits would have been a good fit for the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone back in the day, but feel less fun when delegated to a leading man like Tom Cruise. The star is too charismatic to play someone so cold-blooded, and his fans likely won't appreciate the stretch.
- 50TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissEven when the film is cool, it manages to be wrong.
- 50Arizona RepublicKerry LengelArizona RepublicKerry LengelIn the movie version at least, efforts to render the hero larger than life result in a story that is less than convincing.