Plot holes, shmlot holes, you cry! Get back to the action! Director Edward Zwick (Cruise's The Last Samurai) certainly knows his way around an action scene and skillfully crafts a string of formidable set pieces: fights and shootouts and chase sequences, oh how many chase scenes! Reacher and Turner go on the run and do so. There's one point in Never Go Back where Reacher is so far ahead of everyone else - including the audience - that he connects a slew of completely unrelated plot points and another character objects, "What are you talking about? We don't know that any of these things are connected!" And we don't! And the movie never bothers to connect them. Both are always right, always one step ahead. You never question or underestimate either of them. Both Reacher and Ethan Hunt are too cool. Jack Reacher, the character, exemplifies the same fundamental problem I wrote about in regard to the last offering in Cruise's action canon, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.
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