Jack Reacher is a 2012 American action thriller film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, starring Tom Cruise and based on Lee Child's 2005 novel One Shot.
The film was reviewed on the movie review show On Cinema at the Cinema, during S01E09. Host Tim Heidecker enjoyed the film, and later chose it as his favorite movie of 2012 after a second viewing. Frequent guest Gregg Turkington, who had reviewed the movie positively, dissented, changing his mind to feeling that the film was “amateurish” upon his own second viewing.[1]
Heidecker felt that, following the release of Jack Reacher, the long-running action spy franchise James Bond had run its course, and would be coming to an end following the release of the film Skyfall. He considered Jack Reacher a successor to the spy genre, and that Bond was no longer needed in the new generation of spy movies, which he foresaw containing many more Jack Reacher films.