Jack Reacher is the titular main protagonist of the Jack Reacher franchise. He is a former United States Police Corps. He appeared in the novel and movie of the same name.
In the movie, he is portrayed by famous actor Tom Cruise, who also portrayed Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible, Maverick in Top Gun, Nathan Algren in The Last Samurai, Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man, John Anderton in Minority Report, Ray Ferrier in War of the Worlds, Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July, Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men, David Aames in Vanilla Sky, Jack Harper in Oblivion, Major William Cage in Edge of Tomorrow, and Nick Morton in The Mummy (2017).
In the TV series he is portrayed by Alan Ritchson, who also portrayed Aquaman in Smallville, Hank Hall/Hawk in Titans and Raphael in Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films.
Biography[]
Early life[]
He was born in October 29 of 1960. Jack Reacher's father, Stan Reacher was a United States Marine Captain. He also has a brother named Joe.
Role in the Film[]
Jack Reacher (2012)[]
In the film, Jack is a very tough and strong man not like in the books, he is actually always avoiding the police and the law although he was a former policeman.
In the movie he is going to kill the man who responsible for the deaths of five people in town in USA who got killed by a mysterious man that used a sniper rifle.
At the end of the movie, Charlie (the film's secondary villain) is finally revealed as the true man who is responsible to the killing of the five people.
Jack is fighting Charlie in the rain at quarry where the true bad guys that are revealed as a Russian gang led by a mysterious old man called the Zec (the film's main villain) were in that place and in the quarry, Jack and Martin Cash are fighting with the villains in a very thrilling shootout which all the group of the armed guys are finally dead and in the end of the fight with Charlie, Jack breaks Charlie's arm and kills him when he (Jack) also breaks his neck and that what kills Charlie. After Charlie's death, Jack enters the office of the quarry and kills another man named Emerson who is also a partner of the scheme which is James Barr and a minute later, Jack shoots the Zec and kills him by shooting him in the head and rescuing Helen Rodin and Jack and the girl are meeting for the last time with Cash and going from the quarry.
In the movie, he's got a red and cool car that shown in the movie where Reacher is escaping from the town's police and Barr.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)[]
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Personality[]
Jack's personality is very tough and hard but good and friendly and he has very high fighting skills in which makes him a very dangerous man.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Helen Rodin
- Alex Rodin
- Martin Cash
- Gaitano 'Guy' Russo
- Sandy
- Susan Turner
- Samantha Dayton
Enemies[]
- Charlie
- James Barr
- Zec Chelovek
- The Russian Gang
- Emerson
- James Harkness
- The Hunter
- Raymond Wood
Trivia[]
- Tom Cruise’s portrayal as Reacher was praised, but his appearance, height and body physique didn’t match to his novel counterpart to which received criticism to the fans of the books, as many felt Cruise didn’t fit as the role of Reacher.
- Alan Ritchson’s portrayal as Reacher however was more well received, even matching his appearance to the novel counterpart, to which many of the fans, (including author Lee Child) praised for.