Amazon’s Reacher occasionally explains himself to others, but never in a way that makes him live up to the “Sherlock Homeless” nickname he has in the novels. The show also lacks the internal monologue in which Reacher is constantly doing the math to figure out where suspects may have gone and how best to injure the five men attacking him at the moment. But since most actors - including many of his co-stars here - are on the shorter end of the spectrum, he can pass. (*) Ritchson is listed at six foot two, which still isn’t quite Reacher-sized.
He’s a generic vigilante who just happens to look like a mountain next to the small-town Georgia cops (played by Malcolm Goodwin and Willa Fitzgerald) who assist him in this maiden adventure(*). Ritchson’s 12-pack is a physical manifestation of a tonal problem: His Reacher is smarmy and pleased with himself, rather than casually secure in his own vast abilities.
But whenever his shirt comes off (which is often), he has the smooth muscle definition of a man who spends four hours a day in a gym with a personal trainer, followed by another two getting touch-ups at the salon, rather than a slightly evolved caveman who came by his strength through scraps and brawls. Ritchson has played superheroes in shows like Smallville and Titans, and he’s statuesque enough to look plausible casually bursting out of a pair of flex cuffs. Those Cruise movies are good thrillers (the first especially), but they’re not really Jack Reacher movies.Įven more hilariously, Amazon has built the entire marketing campaign for its new Reacherseries around star Alan Ritchson’s build, stopping just shy of using the tagline: “Reacher’s tall again!” But this turns out to be a case where size doesn’t matter matter as much as you might hope. But Cruise lacked the mythical stature that’s long distinguished Reacher most clearly from his action-movie peers, and especially from his sleuthing counterparts. The films more or less captured the character’s intensity and self-sufficiency. Hilariously, pocket-sized movie star Tom Cruise insisted on playing Reacher in a pair of movies. Jack Reacher has many other notable traits besides being huge: He was a veteran Army investigator! He now lives as a hobo, wandering from town to town with little but the clothes on his back and a folding travel toothbrush! He’s a brilliant detective with almost superhuman powers of perception and time-keeping! Mostly, though, Reacher is big: a six-foot-five wall of muscle - with hands Child has at various points compared to the size of both dinner plates and supermarket chickens - who draws attention in every room he enters, and is the favorite in the many, many, extremely many fights he gets into. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” Now, substitute the name Jack Reacher for “space,” and you essentially have the core conceit of the two dozen or so Reacher thrillers written by Lee Child over the last 25 years. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. The satiric sci-fi author Douglas Adams once wrote, “Space is big.
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