Why do you think Jack Reacher resonates with fans so much. So it was okay, but it just was funny that it's like our first day and they are like boom shut the door on me, like a prison door, like a huge pane glass bulletproof door. Maybe it was because of that- I have a very high pain tolerance. Weren't you getting over like a hurt foot or something like that?Ĭobie Smulders: Yeah, a broken leg. We did this scene, where we break out out of prison, there's this moment where Reacher uses the baton to stop the door from closing and it was like a weird timed-like the door was obviously controlled by us, but there was this moment, I think the baton didn't stick in right and the door just like shut on me and it got me on my hip and down my thigh and it just really nailed me and I had a black bruise that went up my leg and my whole hip was totally black and it was day one.
Did you have any good bruises or any good story as far as bruises or being beaten up on set?Ĭobie Smulders: I do have a good bruise story. It's so crazy and you're not even winded now?Ĭobie Smulders: I am, still slightly winded, yes. I got to say you ladies just seem to run through this whole entire movie. We caught up with both gals to talk about what it is like working and trying to keep up with the legendary Cruise, as well as learning about the overall appeal of the Jack Reacher character/franchise. Cobie Smulders plays Susan Turner, Reacher's latest love interest, while Danika Yarosh plays a troubled teenager. Marvel's staple, Cobie Smulders, along with Danika Yarosh ( Heroes Reborn), joins Cruise in rounding out this ass-kicking cast, and proving they all can hold their own when it comes to action and stunts.įorced to leave his lone wolf identity in the dust, these ladies join Reacher on his latest adventure and form a dysfunctional and unconventional family unit. However, this time Cruise is not the only badass on the big screen.
He prides himself on doing his own insane stunts and his latest film, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, is no exception. There isn’t even anything remotely visually interesting.Tom Cruise is known for kicking ass and taking names in action films.
The IMAX version is a particular insult to audiences: There’s nothing visually spectacular enough here to warrant paying a premium price for a ticket. There isn’t anything here that isn’t lazy it’s all shockingly rote and tired. It’s a story with surprisingly low stakes for a would-be action blockbuster, requiring the addition of a tired cliché in the 15-year-old girl (Danika Yarosh) who may or may not be the daughter Reacher never knew he had, who can be threatening as a way to motivate him to Do the Plot. So he teams up with Major Susan Turner (an underutilized Cobie Smulders) to look into it. This time, former military investigator Reacher (Tom Cruise, also producer for what is a superstar vanity project) stumbles onto a big crime within the US Army, something to do with, maybe, decommissioned weapons from Afghanistan being sold on the black market.
If 2012’s Jack Reacher was a forgettable episode of a bland TV show, Never Go Back is the episode that would convince you the show was about to be cancelled, and rightfully so.