‘Reacher,’ Amazon’s new adaptation of Lee Child’s book series, finally casts an appropriately sized actor to play the iconically huge hero. But when it comes to Jack Reacher, size isn’t the only thing that matters. Alan Sepinwall’s review
Hilariously, pocket-sized movie star Tom Cruise insisted on playing Reacher in a pair of movies. The films more or less captured the character’s intensity and self-sufficiency. But Cruise lacked the mythical stature that’s long distinguished Reacher most clearly from his action-movie peers, and especially from his sleuthing counterparts. Those Cruise movies are good thrillers , but they’re not really Jack Reacher movies.
Ritchson is listed at six foot two, which still isn’t quite Reacher-sized. But since most actors — including many of his co-stars here — are on the shorter end of the spectrum, he can pass. The show also lacks the internal monologue in which Reacher is constantly doing the math to figure out where suspects may have gone and how best to injure the five men attacking him at the moment. Amazon’s Reacher occasionally explains himself to others, but never in a way that makes him live up to the “Sherlock Homeless” nickname he has in the novels. And anytime Ritchson tries to show Reacher acting cold and stoic, he instead comes off as stiff and robotic.
Santora has clear affection and respect for those books, and the season is a fairly faithful adaptation of the first Reacher novel,, where Reacher is first a suspect, and then an unofficial investigator, regarding a series of nasty murders in a previously quiet rural community. I’ve happily devoured all of these books, though not for the sometimes gimmicky plotting, nor Child’s fascination with torture and gore. The books live and die by Reacher himself as this dirty, ass-kicking genius.
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