Jack Reacher: Never Go Back just went back in time two decades because this felt like a very typical 90's action flick.
From beginning to end, it was a very paint-by-numbers kind of action movie which did not need the brand name of Jack Reacher. But because of that branding, it felt even more like a cash grab since the first movie didn't really warrant a sequel.
The beginning of the movie which we saw in the trailers where Tom Cruise sat at a bar and predicted the phone ringing was probably the most interesting part of the movie. While the script tried to make the plot seemed complex, it ended up vague and unnecessarily convoluted.
Cobie Smulders served as a competent action female star, what with her role here as well as in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but she's definitely no Rebecca Ferguson in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.
And Robert Knepper should have been a more menacing villain but he literally added nothing to the movie with his character.
There were some competent action sequences sprinkled throughout, and the quality of movie-making was to a certain standard; but filled with the 90's cheese factor and with nothing fresh to offer, this movie should have never been made. Let's never go back to Jack Reacher again.
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