The new Amazon series Reacher was released recently, this is my review.
Reacher is based on the Jack Reacher book series written by Lee Child, the series also features a lot of input by Child (and he appears briefly in the last episode) Jack Reacher is an ex military police special unit major, and a tough guy. The books pick up after Reacher leaves the army and more or less becomes a drifer, in his travels around America comes into contact with various bad guy, this ends badly for the bad guys... Reacher doesn't mess around.
The series follows the first book by Child, Killing Floor, Reacher on his travels stumbles into the scene of his brothers murder, and sets out to get even.
As sometimg of a Jack Reacher fan I wasn't hopefull, the movies staring Tom Cruse were terrible, Reacher is supposed to be 6 foot 5 inch tall and something like 250 pounds, Tom Cruise on the other hand is about 6 inches tall and 2 pounds soaking wet in diving boots, hardly the right actor for the job. Luckly for the series they fixed that.
The series stars Alan Ritchson... and he looks like Jack Reacher, hell he is Jack Reacher! From the first episode this man mountain kicks, punches, and shoots his way through the bad guys to the point they become an endangered species. Just like the books, in fact the series follows the book very well, almost word for word and thats great for fans of the books.
Hopefully they'll make another series... and more after that, as of writing this theres I think 26 books, so with any luck Jack Reacher fans will get a good few more series.
Waynes rating 9.5/10 Really very good
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