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Amusing and entertaining – though not very taxing: Amazon Prime’s Reacher reviewed

I’m enjoying it a lot more than the grim and earnest Robert Harris adaptation on Sky Atlantic

Alan Ritchson, the musclebound giant who plays Jack Reacher, and his amusing sidekick Oscar Finlay (Malcolm Goodwin) 
issue 19 February 2022
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Jack Reacher is back on the screen and aficionados of the hugely successful Lee Child airport thrillers in which he appears must be hugely relieved. This time he is played not by pint-sized Tom Cruise but by someone much closer to his 6ft 5ins height: a musclebound giant called Alan Ritchson.

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