Using old-fashioned stereotyping for a somewhat old-fashioned movie, if the first Jack Reacher movie was an efficient action movie for the boys, Never Go Back feels as if it was selected to give an action movie for Cruise's female fans, with a range of significant female characters, Cruise addressing more emotional issues with the introduction of possible paternity of a fifteen-year-old daughter who becomes embroiled in the narrative, and watered-down violence for a 12A certificate. Cruise is as reliable as ever and can still carry a movie effortlessly, Cobie Smulders is effective as his main foil, and the introduction of Danika Yarosh as the teenager works well. It has a remarkably simple straightforward story, with overlong talky stretches, but Never Go Back is a slick, well-made but rather tepid action movie.
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