Jack Reacher
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: December 21, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
17
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Washington PostAnn HornadayDec 20, 2012
Jack Reacher is a wildly ill-advised miscalculation, with Cruise's virtually unstoppable appeal butting uncomfortably against Reacher's alternately cocky and downright crude cynicism. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaDec 20, 2012
The violence is plenty, and pointless. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineChris CabinDec 20, 2012
The film is as incompetent, manipulative, safe, and disposable as any number of nickel-and-dime actioners, but goes to great, unconvincing lengths to insist it's different. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedDec 18, 2012
Jack Reacher is mostly grim, violent and stupid. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternDec 20, 2012
Jack Reacher, which Christopher McQuarrie directed from his adaptation of a Lee Child crime novel, is not just another dumb thriller. It's almost peerlessly self-important, weirdly incoherent and eerily smarmy. It's also mysteriously inept, considering that Tom Cruise plays the title role. Read full review
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