Despite being a critical flop, the film has found a new audience since being added to Netflix and is currently the number two most-watched movie on the streaming service globally according to FlixPatrol<\/a>. Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite currently occupies the number one spot.<\/p>\n David James – Paramount<\/p>\n Related: Best streaming services<\/a><\/p>\n At the time of the film’s release, The Standard<\/a> gave it a measly two stars out of five, writing: “Tom Cruise\u2019s latest action spectacular is so dull that I found myself willing on the baddies.”<\/p>\n The film has a low rating of just 37% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> from 244 reviews, with critics noting the film’s unremarkable nature.<\/p>\n “Here it is: the sequel no one asked for to the movie that no one quite remembers,” penned Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, while AV Club<\/a> said it was “almost parodically generic, starting with its absurd title”.<\/p>\n “As crime thrillers go, it’s an inferior product with a predictable plot. It succeeds because of its memorable characters and their shifting relationships. There’s some nice action and offbeat humour,” wrote The Philadelphia Enquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n Paramount<\/p>\n Related: This Playdate trailer will show you a funny side of Reacher’s Alan Ritchson that you\u2019ve never seen before<\/a><\/p>\n Flavorwire<\/a> called the sequel “a bland and generic action flick, not just forgettable after the fact, but during”.<\/p>\n Speaking in his memoir Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood, director and co-writer Edward Zwick opened up about the flop (via Variety<\/a>).<\/p>\n “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which Tom Cruise and I made in 2016, fizzled at the box office,” he explained. “I blame myself (and my willing accomplice, Don Granger) for thinking the audience might enjoy a mash-up of \u2018Jack Reacher\u2019 and \u2018Paper Moon,\u2019 when in fact they just wanted more red meat.”<\/p>\n Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is streaming on Netflix. <\/p>\n![\"Cobie](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7efe5e57ea8b9de8df8627dd3a6f8b88.jpeg\"\/)
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