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Reacher Recap: All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Reacher’s ruthless plan to climb the ladder is working.
The superb bar fight from the criminally underrated 2012 feature Jack Reacher — the one Christopher McQuarrie wrote and directed before being promoted into the Impossible Mission Force — made sense: Five statistically ordinary humans could be forgiven for thinking they could take down one Tom Cruise–size guy. By casting Daniel David Stewart as Eliot and doing everything they can to make him look like he’d lose a fight with a Trapper Keeper, the creative team really is setting us up — in the scene where Richard’s bodyguard intentionally injures himself in an attempt to manipulate his captor — to expect the rookie G-man to meet a bad end. Reacher then puts on a good show for Beck, firing dozens of rounds into the floor, walls, and ceiling of the house, rigging the gas stove to explode, and finally clocking himself in the face using the pistol he confiscated from Angel at Bizarre Bazaar.
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