Rosamund Pike gives a fine performance as Barr’s defense attorney Helen, as does Werner Herzog who plays the chief villain. Jack Reacher has plenty of action, but it will give the viewer plenty to think about as well. The suspect wants only one thing: to see Jack Reacher. The suspect doesn’t want an attorney, he won’t confess even though the police and the DA have advised him that if he elects to be tried, the DA will do his best to get him executed.
In the movie as well as the book, James Barr is accused of killing five random people and the evidence against him will likely produce a guilty verdict. Should be a good time.Based on Lee Child’s book One Shot, Jack Reacher ( Tom Cruise) travels across the USA and always runs into some very dangerous people who have killed innocent people and are planning to do more until Reacher stops them. With Reacher disappearing at the end of Jack Reacher and showing up in a new city for Never Go Back, fans can assume the enigmatic military investigator will go through a similar cycle in the new film of uncovering a mystery, coming under suspicion himself, and ultimately kicking butt before disappearing once more. The film ends with Barr waking up from his coma, telling Helen that he is terrified that Reacher will track him down and kill him, thinking that he actually is guilty of the shooting. Reacher, still wanted for murder, disappears again. He then frees Helen, extracts a confession from Zec, and kills him. Reacher eventually tracks down Helen and Zec and engages in a fight with Zec's gang, killing all of them.
As Reacher gets closer to the truth, he ends up being framed for murder by Zec and Helen is kidnapped.
He was owed money by the murdered construction company owner, and knew enough about Barr's history to set up the murder. The real killers are a gang of criminals led by Zec, a man who spent much of his life in a Soviet Gulag. When questioned by authorities, Barr remains silent, but writes a note telling them to "Get Jack Reacher." The story's plot begins when several people are randomly murdered in Pittsburgh by a sniper, and evidence at the scene points to James Barr, a former U.S. Reacher is extraordinarily gifted in practically every way - genius intellect, expert investigator, superb fighter - and he uses his gifts to help others. Cruise plays the titular character, a mysterious former military cop who is now essentially a drifter. The movie, while it didn't get much attention in the U.S., was actually a terrifically fun action film, one of the best to come out in the past several years. But what happened in the first Jack Reacher movie? And due to the movie's low budget of $60 million, Jack Reacher became a big enough hit to spawn a sequel. But thanks to the international popularity of star Tom Cruise, the film brought in another $138 million overseas. The film made just $80 million during its domestic run - not terrible by any means, but hardly the type of sum associated with an action franchise starter. The first film in the series, J ack Reacher, was released in 2012 to little fanfare. Perhaps the most surprising sequel coming out this year is the new film Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.