Reacher (2022)

Watchseries; I agree it's not as good but The Bridge is a 10 and this is at least a 7. It's certainly not deserving of the ridiculously low ratings some have given it. It's early yet so the ratings a bit high at 8.9, but it'll end up being in the high 7's and that's about right. I'm certainly glad I watched it. Very entertaining and much better than most the recent crime shows out. The Bridge, Babylon Berlin and Bosch were fantastic but those are older shows (referring to other reviews comments), as was Criminal Minds. I have to say this is the best in a good while.

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I agree it's not as good but The Bridge is a 10 and this is at least a 7. It's certainly not deserving of the ridiculously low ratings some have given it. It's early yet so the ratings a bit high at 8.9, but it'll end up being in the high 7's and that's about right. I'm certainly glad I watched it. Very entertaining and much better than most the recent crime shows out. The Bridge, Babylon Berlin and Bosch were fantastic but those are older shows (referring to other reviews comments), as was Criminal Minds. I have to say this is the best in a good while.

You certainly don't want to miss it!!

Reacher watchseries. Reacher as he should be. Great acting from all. Blood, violence and lame jokes, just what TV should be, plus no woke crap. Season 2 please, c'mon TV for adults not the kids who don't actually pay for the service.

Exciting, a pinch of humor, not one episode is boring and very good actors. It is worth it .. A clearly told detective story, easy to digest and beautiful to watch. So it doesn't bother that the somewhat more profound dialogues remain superficial. But that's not bad, the Entertainment is always good.

On the good side it moves along and the guy is like the books said, big and tough. Story is a bit weird and is really just linking fight scenes which are pretty much what you get in the books.

Definite improvement on Tom C.

On the down side it all gets a bit boring very quickly, story is weak and after a short while it gets very repetative. Not a winner but I have seen much worse.

It started off strong but and then devolved very quuckly into not making much sense and loaded with incredible coincidences. I like the actors, but the story was just too farfetched for me. This whole idea of fictionalizing America as more violent and dangerous than any war zone is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It's like the writers were too bad or stupid to care about making any sense at all, or they don't care because viewers are too stupid to care. Whichever scenario this is, Reacher is as unbelievable and childish as any comic book adaptation, and I don't do comic book adaptations-I'm a grown man.

It's like the writers think that if they just throw in enough fights and shootouts that makes it good. It's like the guy can't walk by a group of three or more other dudes without beating them up. "He started it" is not a defense for manslaughter. Reacher would have about two dozen assault charges and four or five murder investigations pending against him. Reacher was a military cop for 20 years and he takes the law into his own hands every chance he gets? He must have been a lousy cop, like all of the yahoos shooting people for no good reason.

This wasn't good and seemed to be digging itself deeper into a pit of stupidity with every episode. Whenever they showed Reacher's prowess for deductive reasoning, it was just too much. "The moon was at first quarter that night and would have cast a shadow..." Too much.

I really wanted to like this series; I swear. I couldn't make it through even one of the books, although I started a few of them. Just sort of too preposterous for me, but I really liked the Reacher character, or at least aspects of him. I actually like the Tom Cruise version, but once again, the story was too much, too conspiratorial, too complicated, too stupid.

In this series, I thought all the actors were great. Reacher was good and size-appropriate for the book character. Roscoe was convincing. I really liked the chubby kid at the morgue. He was funny and his small role brought a lot to the show.

Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson), a former U. S. Army military policeman, now lives as a drifter carrying only his passport, cash, and a French military service medal. Upon his arrival in the rural town of Margrave, Georgia, Reacher is arrested for his suspected murder of a man found dead near an overpass. Boston born and Harvard educated Chief Detective Oscar Finlay (Malcolm Goodwin) is suspicious of Reacher while Officer Roscoe Conklin (Willa Fitzgerald) is more receptive of Reacher's presence in the town. When a banker named Paul Hubble (Marc Bendavid) confesses to the crime without any corroborating evidence Reacher becomes embroiled in a mystery which only raises more questions when it's revealed the man murdered under the overpass was in fact Reacher's estranged brother Joe.

Based on the Jack Reacher series of books by Lee Child, Reacher marks the latest attempt to mine the books for adaptation following the Tom Cruise led film franchise fizzling out with the divisive follow up Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. While I enjoyed the Tom Cruise films to a degree (even the second one wasn't terrible) it's undeniable Tom Cruise did not match the description Child created in the books. Now free of the constraints that come with feature films and given more breathing room with 8 episodes, Reacher is fun detective fiction that creates an engaging narrative and a likable protagonist played by Alan Ritchson.

Alan Ritchson is fantastic as Reacher as he plays the character as a man with a strong sense of justice. Reacher doesn't actively seek out trouble, but if it happens to find him he makes it clear that it will regret having sought him out. Ritchson gives the character a lot of humor with his laid back charisma leading to some genuinely humorous moments between the various baddies he encounters as well as in his alliances with Finlay and Roscoe. Malcolm Goodwin is a solid ally for Reacher as despite being a man of intellect and character, he's not above getting his hands (or his tweed suit) dirty in pursuit of ridding the town of corruption despite often being looked upon as an outsider. Willa Fitzgerald is really good as Roscoe who has great chemistry with Ritchson and despite being a love interest isn't overly sexualized and can hold her own against the villains. The show's mystery is engaging with Reacher and his allies tracking down leads throughout the town of Margrave with actors like Bruce McGill, Chris Webster, Willie C. Carpenter, Harvey Guillen, and Kristin Kreuk giving solid performances as the various characters Reacher and company come into contact with.

Reacher is terrific entertainment. Alan Ritchson is perfectly cast as the titular Jack Reacher and is surrounded by a solid supporting cast who make the mystery entertaining and thrilling. The show promises even further adventures for the character derived from the books and if they stay at the level of this season I can see this having legs.