So one helpful fan pieced together a half-hour montage of the best brawls and chases from the first season. With the show there are almost too many moments to choose between. The villain has Samantha hostage, but she manages to get free, and an epic final fight ensues. After a pursuit through a New Orleans parade, in which the bad guy is trying to capture Reacher's potential daughter (Samantha), they all end up on a rooftop. The sequel builds upon the car chase by setting it on foot. This scene is all the more exciting given that Cruise famously performs his own stunts. Reacher has just been framed for murder, and he begins pursuing the actual killers at the same time that the police are chasing him through the streets of Pittsburgh.
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The most thrilling scene in the original movie has to be the extended car chase. The closest would be KJ, but there's plenty of screen time for other minor crooks to get their heads bashed in by Reacher. Unlike in the movies, there is no primary villain. The big bads are Margrave's mayor, Grover Teale, and the wealthy Kliner family, composed of Kliner Sr. The show, with its eight hour-long episodes, features a panoply of minor villains, and even some red herrings. (With the father-daughter plot undergirding the whole story, the villains weren't as important in the sequel anyway.) The sequel doesn't manage to find as big a name for its main villain, but Robert Knepper and Patrick Heusinger work together to challenge Reacher, respectively, as corrupt General Harkness and his goon known only as The Hunter. The Zec bit his fingers off in Siberia, so he relies on his right hand man, Charlie, to do most of his dirty work.
In "Jack Reacher," the movie, Reacher faces off against The Zec, a Russian man - played by Werner Herzog - who used to be a prisoner in Siberia (Zec roughly translates to prisoner in Russian). There's not a quip in sight, just cool-headed reasoning. Take his whodunnit moment from the first movie, for example, wherein Reacher puts together the pieces nobody else was even looking at. While both performances accentuate Reacher's skillful deductive reasoning, Cruise's tone makes for a character more like Holmes than Batman, to borrow an analogy from earlier. Another actor from the show, Hugh Thompson, said of Ritchson's performance (per Deseret News), "What struck me was sense of timing, his sense of humor." This should come as no surprise, given Ritchson's work in the 2016 comedy "Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland." Between his bulk and his comedy bits, Ritchson's Reacher would find himself as much at home in a Marvel movie as his own show.Ĭruise's Reacher, on the other hand, is much more stoic and severe.
If this montage of his quips is any indication, Ritchson plays into Reacher's humor more than Cruise. Ritchson's Reacher is a smarmy son-of-a-gun with the arms to back up his mouth.
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