Reacher Review: Modern Hero Who Combines Action And Intelligence From The Novels Of Lee Child
Cast: Alan Ritchson, Malcolm Goodwin
Creator: Nick Santora
Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video (click to watch)
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3.5/5 (three and half star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
The TV series Reacher debuts today on Friday 4 February with its 8 episodes in streaming on Prime Video. Born from the pen of Lee Child and already played in the cinema by Tom Cruise, Jack Reacher is a former military policeman who always ends up in the middle of some trouble as he wanders around the United States with money in his pocket and without suitcase or clothes. replacement. The serial version is developed by Nick Santora, produced by Skydance and Paramount Television with Amazon Studios, distributed in streaming on Prime Video in Italy and in all countries where the service is active.
Reacher Review: The Story
Nick Santora, who adapts the first story into eight parts, Killing Floor (1997), in Italian Zona Pericolosa imagines a different Reacher closer to the source. He decides to stay on an axis of stringent philological coherence with the novel (the novels), modeling the protagonist on the heroic profile imagined by Child a few years ago. Several overseas feathers have pointed out, with ill-concealed perfidy among other things, that what one gains in muscles is lost in charisma. True. However, it doesn’t make much sense, on a purely rational level, to criticize an actor because he is quite simply not Tom Cruise. Also because the change of perspective with relative losses is deliberate, so what can and must be done is to try to understand if, given the following coordinates, Reacher hits the target or not. First, a brief synopsis.
Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) is a former military police prodigy of the United States of America. He wanders from city to city, takes good care of his personal hygiene, a light luggage and makes choices in terms of clothing that would send Chiara Ferragni to the analyst without going out of the way. A longer-than-expected stop is in the parts of Margrave , a dusty and somewhat chaotic (fictional) town in Georgia where a certain kind of people have a certain kind of tendency to fall like flies. Here the strong hero will cross paths with agent Roscoe Conklin (Willa Fitzgerald), who has sympathy for him from the beginning, and chief detective Oscar Finley (Malcolm Goodwin), a Boston-like guy who ended up in Georgia who knows how. Kristin Kreuk is a scared wife and mother, Bruce McGill the lovable mayor. That’s enough. The rest must be discovered.
Reacher Review and Analysis
The Reacher formula is a cocktail of violence, skeletons in the closet, humor and a nomadic and nonconformist mentality. Nick Santora ‘s writing captures the essence of the character without sacrificing anything (this time) to literature, choosing the path of rigorous adaptation. The action is in the canons, the spark of humor comes just when one expects it, there is an attempt to go beyond the firefights and the carom of fists to tell something more about Jack Reacher’s invisible wounds. Those of the soul. As expected, the answer to many of the important and unimportant questions lies in the family.
What the series lacks in order to take flight and not remain trapped in the fray of ordinary products, is the will, pure and simple, to overcome the schemes. The action is intense and has good plastic strength, but it looks like a hundred other examples. The humor is patently restrained. The trio protagonist Ritchson-Goodwin-Fitzgerald, between the ups and downs of the story, has the potential of a good team but struggles to tear themselves off the rails of a narrative arc whose folds are easily understood from miles away. Solid but not overly pyrotechnic, Reacher lacks the strength and intensity of its curious and massive protagonist. But you don’t have to get mad about this Jack, it’s just a review Ok?
Just like the Bond Girls of the 007 saga, even in the stories of Reacher there always seems to be a woman who acts as a counterbalance to the protagonist in a different way. If in the films it had been Rosamunde Pike and Cobie Smulders, in the Prime Video series it is Willa Fitzgerald who gives body and voice to Roscoe, a police officer from the town who grew up in a world of men, even working; tomboy right from her name and who is presented to us as the protagonist, and not as a damsel in distress.
She is the only one who can instinctively be trusted by Reacher and that will make a huge difference to resolving the case. Which will also see Oscar Finlay (Malcolm Goodwin), the local police chief who does not immediately trust Reacher but soon realizes that there is something rotten in the city where he found himself administering justice, and perhaps understands it because he is used to discrimination for his being black. Roscoe soon learned to fend for herself in life and her relationship with Reacher undergoes an interesting evolution, giving us some of the most exciting moments in the series. While waiting for the announcement of a possible second season, which could fix some creaky elements of the inaugural cycle, enjoy this entry into the potentially infinite universe of the latest modern action hero.
Reacher Review: The Last Words
Here is filmyhype.com Reacher review happy to find a series more faithful to the original novels than the film counterpart of a few years ago, in the appearance and setting of the protagonist, who offers a characterization on paper that winks at great detectives of the past. Without forgetting the action part with effect sequences. The dimension of the community inserted in the story is also interesting, which from the little one comes to touch a large and large conspiracy and to analyze the protagonist’s past, flanking him with a female protagonist his equal and not femme fatale of the moment.
