![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Jack, sitting on a bus, overhears a man verbally and physically abusing a young woman and gets up to confront him. However, Helen is confident he will be cleared. A remorseful Barr is willing to accept both responsibility and punishment. Barr's mental reconstruction of how he would have committed the shootings matches Jack's theory. When Barr awakens from his coma, he tells Helen that he has no memory of the crime, but believes that he must be guilty. The Zek points out that Jack has killed all who could have testified against him and doubts that he will be convicted, while also stating that an American prison would be easy compared to his previous incarceration in Siberia.Ĭonvinced, Jack shoots him in the head. Jack kills the henchmen and Emerson with Cash's help, before confronting the Zek. The gang kidnaps Helen with the aid of Detective Emerson and holds her hostage at a quarry. The real perpetrators are working for a ruthless construction firm led by an ex-Soviet prisoner known only as Zek Chelovek ("prisoner human being"). Jack eventually follows up a hunch to a shooting range in neighboring Ohio owned by ex- United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Martin Cash. Jack is later framed for the murder of the young woman who was paid to instigate the brawl. After Helen reports her findings about the victims to Jack, he suggests that the owner of local construction company Oline Archer was the real target, while the other victims served as a cover-up. An apparently spurious bar fight makes Jack realize that someone is attempting to strong-arm him into dropping his investigation. ![]() Jack goes to the crime scene and finds inconsistencies a trained sniper would have shot from a van on the nearby Fort Duquesne Bridge. Jack agrees to investigate if Helen visits the victims' families to learn about the people murdered that day. Jack vowed that if Barr tried anything like that again, he would take him down. He reveals that Barr had gone on a killing spree during his tour of duty in Iraq, but was not prosecuted because, unbeknownst to Barr, his military contractor victims had just emerged from a weekend of assaulting numerous women, and the US Army just wanted the whole mess forgotten. Helen tells Jack he can see the evidence if he will be her investigator, but Jack retorts that he is not interested in clearing Barr. Jack meets Barr's defense attorney, Helen Rodin, Alex Rodin's daughter. Emerson and Rodin deny Jack's request to view the evidence, but agree to let him see Barr, who was attacked by fellow inmates and is now in a coma. He arrives in Pittsburgh after seeing a news broadcast about Barr. Jack Reacher is a drifter and ex- US Army Military Police Corps investigator and major. During an interrogation by Emerson and District Attorney Alex Rodin, Barr is offered a choice between life in prison in exchange for a full confession or a guaranteed death sentence, as Rodin has never lost a case.īarr instead writes "Get Jack Reacher" on a notepad. When the police raid his house, they find the van, the rifle, and Barr unconscious. A fingerprint on the coin belongs to James Barr, an ex- United States Army sniper. The Pittsburgh Police, headed by Detective Calvin Emerson, find a shell casing and the quarter used to pay for parking. Using a rifle, he shoots and kills five people on the river's North Shore Trail from long range before driving off. In Pittsburgh, a man drives a van into a parking garage across the Allegheny River from PNC Park, dropping a quarter into the meter. A sequel was developed with Cruise titled Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, based on the 2013 novel Never Go Back, which was released on October 21, 2016. The film's premiere screening in Pittsburgh was postponed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting the movie was released in North America one week later on December 21, 2012, where it received generally positive reviews and was successful at the box office. The musical score was composed by Joe Kraemer, performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony and recorded at the Sony Scoring Stage in Culver City, California.Ĭruise performed all of his own driving stunts during the film's car chase sequence. It was filmed entirely on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The film entered production in October 2011, and was completed in January 2012. ![]() ![]() The film stars Tom Cruise as the title character, with Rosamund Pike, David Oyelowo, Richard Jenkins, Jai Courtney, Werner Herzog, and Robert Duvall also starring. Jack Reacher is a 2012 American action thriller film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, based on Lee Child's 2005 novel One Shot. ![]()
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