Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher better not work from home | Brief letters

Brief letters: Hero worship | Mile-high club rules | Keeping your marbles | A clown act | Rooting for Elizabeth

Letters

10, Feb, 2022 @5:55 PM

The Guardian view on Jack Reacher: enduring appeal

Editorial: A new TV series shows the laconic hero dispatch the bad guys with balletic ease. If only real life were like that

Editorial

09, Feb, 2022 @7:00 PM

Lee Child set to adapt Jack Reacher novels for TV (but with a taller star)

As he prepares to make his archive public, the thriller writer explains why fans didn’t like Tom Cruise’s role on the big screen

Dalya Alberge

26, Aug, 2018 @6:00 AM

Hit the road, Jack Reacher: why Tom Cruise should ditch the goody two-shoes act

Cruise plays the hero with a megawatt smile yet again in The Mummy. But a survey of his less likable characters reveals an actor born to play the baddie

John Patterson

08, Jun, 2017 @5:00 AM

Dwayne Johnson: I was turned down for Jack Reacher in favour of Tom Cruise

The actor has revealed he went for the role of Lee Child’s hulking detective, which Cruise ultimately won despite lacking the size of the original character

Guardian film

12, Apr, 2017 @9:17 AM

I, Daniel Blake scores impressive result at UK box office as Trolls takes top spot

DreamWorks animation scares up a £5.44m debut and forceful marketing delivers handsome opening for Ken Loach’s arthouse hit

Charles Gant

25, Oct, 2016 @2:12 PM

Tyler Perry's Madea beats Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher at US box office

Ninth instalment of Perry’s franchise tops second adaptation of Lee Child novel in battle of the sequels

Alan Evans and agencies

24, Oct, 2016 @9:49 AM

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back review – pecs, punchups and popcorn galore

Tom Cruise rattles through every trope in the book as the vigilante ex-soldier, this time fleeing corrupt bosses in a high-octane sequel that revels in its absurdity

Peter Bradshaw

19, Oct, 2016 @1:00 PM

Viral video: Ricky Gervais mimics the stars, and Ronaldo loses his cool

The Office comedian does impressions from Robert de Niro to Kim Kardashian, plus Selena Gomez does Carpool Karaoke, in our online video chart

Janette Owen

24, Jun, 2016 @6:35 AM

Tom Cruise is indestructible: a Jack Reacher sequel is in the works

Following the success of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Paramount has confirmed a sequel to 2012’s much less successful Cruise action vehicle

Nigel M Smith

12, Aug, 2015 @5:32 PM

Timothy Spall's clenched bottom in Mr Turner tops list of complaints

Scene in which Spall’s (clothed) character has sex in Mike Leigh biopic helped make Mr Turner movie about which British Board of Film Classification received most complaints

Ben Child

14, Jul, 2015 @8:40 AM

Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher is BBFC's most complained about movie of 2013

Twenty-six people wrote to British Board of Film Classification to protest against 12A certificate despite violence, over 100 fewer than raised similar issues over 2012's A Woman in Black

Andrew Pulver

17, Jul, 2014 @6:10 PM