The pair of Jack Reacher action flicks starring Tom Cruise were not great, but at least one gave us a villainous Werner Herzog and that must count for something. The biggest problem with them was the star, especially if you were a fan of Lee Child’s novels about the brawny vigilante. Cruise does not exactly fit the physical mold of the character, and you could tell directors were shooting him from a low angle to make him seem more imposing. It was distracting. Anyway, a new take on Reacher has arrived on Amazon Prime and size is not going to be a problem.
That’s because the role of Jack Reacher is being played by Alan Ritchson, who has the barrel chest and muscles that dwarf Tom Cruise. If you’re asking yourself, “Hey, isn’t that the guy who played Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles“? Yes, it is, but he’s also Hawk on WB’s Titans series. Physically, Ritchson is a fit for the badass military vet who wanders the country righting wrongs and beating bad guys up.
Behind the series is Prison Break writer Nick Santora. Joining Ritchson in the cast are Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald, Chris Webster, Hugh Thompson, Maria Sten, Harvey Guillén, , Currie Graham, Marc Bendavid, Willie C. Carpenter, Maxwell Jenkins, Bruce McGill, and Smallville‘s Kristin Kreuk. Good to see Kreuk again.
Reacher comes to Amazon Prime Video on February 4th 2022.
Reacher follows Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator who has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served. When Reacher arrives in the small town of Margrave, Georgia, he finds a community grappling with its first homicide in 20 years. The cops immediately arrest him and eyewitnesses claim to place Reacher at the scene of the crime. While he works to prove his innocence, a deep-seated conspiracy begins to emerge, one that will require Reacher’s keen mind and hard-hitting fists to deal with. One thing above all is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.
