Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Review - 3 Ups & 6 Downs

Downs...

6. Outrageously Bad Dialogue & Re-Dubbing

While the original movie wasn't exactly a paragon of wit and intelligence, it did manage to serve up a few memorable dialogues, such as Werner Herzog's infamous story about chewing off his fingers. Never Go Back? Nah.

The script for the sequel feels cobbled together from a spy thriller cliche generator, trotting out ridiculously trite placeholder lines we've all heard dozens of times before, while bringing little in the way of wit or invention (except perhaps for when Cruise asks Cobie Smulders' soldier Susan Turner, "Did it offend you more when I treated you as a woman or as a man?")

Worse still is the film's odd abundance of re-dubbed dialogue, which has been done so carelessly that there are a handful of scenes where characters' mouths aren't at all moving in sync with the dialogue. It's outrageously unprofessional for a $60 million movie starring one of the world's most famous actors.