Fly Boy

Are you all really quibbling about whether it's realistic, or whether a human can really do that, or, whatever the heck else you want to complain about? 🤣. The character was in his mid to late 30's when he was introduced in the first book and is unstoppable as of the latest book, in which he's got to be 50's if not 60. For heaven's sake - if you read the books, you already have to suspend disbelief as he moves from town to town, outmatching everyone and righting wrongs. Get a grip people. It is FICTION and in fiction, we can do whatever we want, even have what seems to be superhuman strength or unbelievable luck. At least they have stuck with Alan Ritchson. His physical makeup at least does a better job of matching the guy that Lee Child first created. I understood when Child allowed Tom Cruise to play him, becaus, well, TOM CRUISE. But he was never really Jack Reacher. This Alan Ritchson guy fits him to a T.

Maybe the novel this was based on was more subtle. The finale was two thirds an extended action sequence.

So when Reacher phoned the Senator for help. He sent three Navy Seals. Did he also sent a photo to tell them when you are taking out the baddies. This is what Neagley and Reacher look like. Don't take them out immediately.

In fact if Reacher has friends at Homeland security. Maybe they could had sent some guys down!

It is action packed in a ridiculous way. People who have been tortured, stabbed and shot at had miraculously recovery powers.

The rest was padding. Reacher and his team dividing up the spoils for everyone.

I can barely accept that the series has turned into a series about a group of ruthless killers who kill dozens of people out of revenge and in a sadistic manner, I can barely accept that there is the head of security of a company who decides to sell futuristic weapons to terrorists, corrupt a senator, cause the death of dozens of people, all this for ONLY $65 million, but I absolutely cannot accept that Homeland, for some reason that is not understood, not only wants to hide, but even succeeds in hiding a group of killers involved, directly or indirectly, in political corruption for the purpose of selling state-of-the-art weapons to a terrorist group that has led to the deaths of dozens and dozens of local criminals, a policeman a police chief, the entire security sector of a company, a truck driver, a criminal in a hospital, a fake doctor in a hospital, an arms dealer, a pilot and a technician shot down by a missile, a politician's escort, a politician's aide and the senator himself, who by the way are alive and it is not clear why they should not talk, and I am probably forgetting someone. .. It becomes science fiction ...

The first season of Reacher was essentially perfect. The writing and acting absolutely nailed Reacher. It was a superb TV adaptation of the book Killing Floor. The second season has been so much worse, mostly the writing.

Season Two of Reacher is what happens when the writers decide to make it more stereotypically "Hollywood". This isn't Reacher. It's a dumb action flick with all the tropes, like unnecessary violence, thousands upon thousands of bullets flying everywhere and no one getting hit, people doing absurd stunts that make no sense, plus plenty of other physics-defying nonsense.

If you like Reacher, and especially if you like the books, I think you're going to be disappointed in this season and especially this absurd ending.

I haven't checked to see if the same writers were used for this season or not. If not, they absolutely need to fire this group and rehire the original group. If this was done by the original group, well, time to fire them, too, and find someone willing to stick closer to the source material.

Where to begin ?

This finale should've been taken back to the drawing board, The pacing is rushed, we learn what happened to swan, what kind of men langston and AM really are and reacher is basically hercules.

Production - another rough cgi, obvious stunt work set piece, poorly mixed audio ( i use headphones).

Acting - usual standard, some shine others just phone it in.

Music - well chosen.

The episode starts right where ep7 left off with reacher going in to the lions den and ready to fight.

The bad guys become utter chumps and drop like flies, and it just gets worse from there.

With out spoiling specifics, the main fight is over by the half way point of the episode and the rest of it is used to wrap up the 'victims families' and reachers good byes.

Some violence, a teeny bit of gore, a lot of suspension of disbelief required and alot of mixed messages.

A good sum up of the season, moments of brilliance and good action let down by dumb writing and forced cliches.