Jack Reacher is everything a hero should be – gorgeous, well-mannered, incredibly intelligent, and professional. But if you mess with him, he’ll unleash his violent side and crush anybody or anything who tries to stop him from completing his tasks. And Tom Cruise is a perfect match for the role. Jack Reacher movies feature all the best qualities that appeal to criminal thriller movies enthusiasts. Including a fast-paced storyline, dramatic action, and fascinating plot twists. If you like one or both of these films and are seeking for more, here are seven more to add to your viewing list. These films, which are all packed with suspense, action, and drama, promise to deliver the same thrilling experience as the Jack Reacher.
1. The A-Team (2010)
Director- Joe Carnahan
Four American soldiers in Iraq are dispatched on a mission to recover printing plates for $100 bills that were previously used to produce a billion dollars. Their commanding officer is murdered in an explosion after they finish the mission and return to the base. The plates are stolen by another operator. They’d face a court martial and be transported to various prisons. Six months later, the commander, Hannibal Smith, is visited by a CIA operative. He informs him that he knows where the man who stole the plates is. Also, that he wants him and his men to find him.
So he assists him in escaping, and he frees the others so they can go after the plates. However, after completing the task, they learn that the spook may not be in good shape. And they’re being pursued by a military intelligence officer who was involved with one of them.
2. White House Down (2013)
Director- Roland Emmerich
President of the United States of America, James Sawyer, offers a global peace plan that irritates the arms business. Meanwhile, Capitol security agent John Cale has applied for a position with the Secret Service to protect the president. He travels to Washington with his eleven-year-old daughter Emily for an interview with Agent Finnerty. Cale is rejected, so Emily takes him on a tour of the White House. The White House is unexpectedly invaded and taken over by a terrorist gang lead by Stenz. Cale fights the paramilitary group to save his daughter. The president while revealing high treason and a coup d’état backed by the arms business.
3. RED (2010)
Director- Robert Schwentke
Frank is a lonely retiree who lives in a plain area in an equally generic house on his government pension. Frank’s only happiness comes from his calls to the government pension processing centre. There he can speak with his case worker, Sarah. Sarah is as bored and lonely as Frank. The only things she enjoys in her life are her discussions with the unknown Frank and her spy novels. When something from Frank’s background drives him back into his former line of work, putting Sarah in the heart of the mystery. Frank and Sarah embark on a trip into his history and the people he used to work with. They’re all “R.E.D.” – Retired Extremely Dangerous, just like Frank.
4. Taken (2008)
Director- Pierre Morel
Bryan Mills, a divorced and almost-retired former CIA agent, attempts to spend more quality time with his lively seventeen-year-old daughter, Kim, in order to bridge the gap between him, his ex-wife, Lenore, and his lively seventeen-year-old daughter, Kim. When Mills reluctantly agrees to allow Kim and her friend, Amanda, travel to Paris, his concerns are realised when the two innocent girls are kidnapped by a violent white-slavery ring as soon as they arrive. Now, the seasoned warrior has fewer than 96 hours to save his daughter from the well-prepared kidnappers, and the time is ticking.
5. The Bourne Identity (2002)
Director- Doug Liman
On a stormy night, the crew of a fishing boat pulls a young guy from the Mediterranean Sea. A curious fisherman with a scalpel discovers two gunshots in the young man’s back and a tiny laser device in his hip, believing the young man to be dead. A Swiss bank account number is revealed by the laser beam. Our drenched hero, however, is alive and well, and soon finds himself in Zurich. The young man learns his name is Jason Bourne while exploring the bank vault. He also discovers a befuddling collection of passports, all of which bear his photo, as well as a large sum of money.
Jason Bourne discovers his love interest and travel companion, Marie, in the United States Embassy, as well as the fact that he is being pursued by assassins. Bourne scours Paris for clues about his identity and prior life, armed with a bag of money and unusual martial arts skills, and with Marie at his side… and ends up in the heart of two CIA-backed assassination plots.
6. John Wick (2014)
Director- Chad Stahelski
John Wick, the expert former assassin, receives one final gift from his loving wife, a valuable keepsake to help John find new meaning in life now that she is gone, with the unexpected loss of his beloved wife still bitter in his mouth. When Iosef Tarasov, an arrogant Russian mob prince, and his men pay Wick an unwanted visit to rob him of his cherished 1969 Mustang and his wife’s present, Wick will be forced to reveal his meticulously hidden identity. John, blinded by vengeance, will launch a carefully choreographed cyclone of destruction against the sophisticated kingpin, Viggo Tarasov, and his family, who are fully aware of his murderous capacity. Only blood can fulfil the boogeyman’s appetite for vengeance at this point.
7. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Director- Kenneth Branagh
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Jack Ryan, a student at the London School of Economics, joins the US Marine Corps and fights in Afghanistan, where his spine is severely injured when his helicopter is shot down. Cathy Muller, a medical student who is helping him learn to walk again, and Thomas Harper, a C.I.A. official who recruits him, meet him throughout his recuperation. After ten years, Ryan is working undercover for the C.I.A. on Wall Street, looking for suspicious financial transactions that could suggest terrorist activities.
He discovers that Viktor Cherevin’s riches, worth trillions of dollars, have vanished from Russian companies. Ryan’s organisation has business with Cherevin, so when he discovers that certain accounts are inaccessible to him as an auditor, he has reason to investigate in Moscow. He uncovers a scheme linked to the 9/11 attacks while investigating. He must now determine what, where, and when the event will occur.
This is one of the best action thriller movies I have ever seen. It is not easy to recommend it to you. You can never guess how the plot ends. It makes you paralyzed for a few moment. In my opinion, it’s better than the other movies in this category. If you have time, you must watch this movies.
