Film: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Well we did have to go back, thanks to the Cineworld app showing incorrect information, we arrived to find the only showing due was the one in 4DX: which has ‘high-tech motion seats and special effects including wind, fog, lightning, bubbles, water, rain and scents’.For someone who gets car sick when there are one too many roundabouts, this is cinema step too far.So yes, we did go back a couple of days later, just to get another cinema fix in before we depart for Canada for a month.The story of the ex-military man Major Jack Reacher seemingly just hooking up with his successor Major Sarah Turner, She is arrested for treason before he gets the chance to meet her and off he goes to prove the innocence of someone he has never met. I must be an army thing.They soon find themselves uncovering a major army conspiracy where American soldiers are being killed to keep them out of the picture. The rapidly depleting Military Police have put a small army together to hunt them down and kill them.Was it worth going back? Well it was mild enjoyable but with many flaws.Firstly ditch the teenager. When has a teenager in action film been anything but annoying?I’m pleased the co-starring female character, of the same rank as Reacher is equally as strong. The both save each other’s lives once or twice – the action scenes came so fast and furious I lost track. The much- needed humour on the other hand, a little slower to come by.There are few twists but lots of predictability when I was finishing of the sentences – and punch lines – in my head.I haven’t seen the previous Reacher film (that I recall) but in this one, so much of storyline came from plot conveniences and I felt the film should have been a lot better. It sure started with a great opening,  the trailer.6½/10