The 2012 film , starring Tom Cruise and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, is an action thriller based on Lee Child’s 2005 novel One Shot . Movie Synopsis
Lee Child has written nearly 30 Reacher novels. The character is a modern-day paladin—a wandering knight in a dirty denim jacket. The 2012 film captured the specific tone of the early novels ( One Shot is the specific book adapted here): paranoid, procedural, and punishing. Jack Reacher -2012- Filmyfly.Com
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