The story of this film is banal. Several random killings occur, but one of the victims was intentionally chosen for business reasons. The suspect of committing crimes is a former U.S. military who have committed similar crimes in the past. All the evidence put the suspect at the scene, but the real killer is someone else.

Convened by the action of the suspect, Jack Reacher (also former U.S. military) know the lawyer and the suspect starts to help her. But in doing so he becomes an enemy of those who want to cover up the murder committed intentionally. First, a group of bad boys is hired to beat up the hero. As this does not work, the real criminals, a gang of gunmen in the service of a Russian mobster who has a construction company, killing a girl to incriminate Jack Reacher.

After fights, shootings and car chases, the hero can discover the whole truth. The criminals are all dead with the help of another former U.S. military. The cop investigating the random murders, that actually provided services to Russian mobsters, is also dead.

Racism in the movie Jack Reacher is not very evident. But are printed between the lines.

The hero is a white Anglo-American former military. The villains are Russians who employ criminal means to achieve business objectives. The cop who helps them is black guy. It is true: in the car chase scene, another black guy helps Jack Reacher slightly, but the overall picture of the movie is highly racist. The white Anglo-Americans characters are good, virtuous and pursue truth and justice (Jack Reacher, the lawyer and the prosecutor ); Russians are criminals and the bad cop is black. The only good black guy in the movie do not "acts", he lets the white guy keep acting.

Another relevant aspect of the film is that it raises serious doubts about the American Legal System. In this film the U.S. Justice does not deserve any credit because it allows that an innocent man is framed with fabricated evidence. It also allows criminals commit crimes getting away with it. The black cop is corrupt and unreliable. The solution is disrespect the Law, and only a white Anglo-American former military is able to distinguish what is right from what is wrong and what is more important, kill and die for what is right.

Under the textual layers the movie hides a really dangerous idea: that in a heterogeneous society like the U.S. (with whites, blacks and Russian immigrants, etc...) only the dominance of white element guarantees truth, justice and the security of Legal System still that through the intentional breach of the Law. Ultimately, the movie literally says that the "Rule of Law" in a racially heterogeneous country like the U.S. is not a viable option. There is or this is just an offshoot of the old racism of white Anglo-Americans who want to dominate anyway and use art to convey this idea?

Actually, the second black guy who helped Reacher is has an interesting subtext.

Jack reacher was running from the police. It was strange to see the crowd (I assume of low-income, since their wating for a bus) help Reacher avoid the police - a man that they didn't know, who could be a dangerous criminal, get out of a car and let the car go driverless into traffic, and who the police were actively pursuing via a car chase. And to top it off a young Hispanic guy gets in front to hide him, and an old black guy goes the extra mile and lends his hat to disguise a fugitive from the law!

The position of the movie is pretty clear that it thinks low-income and especially nonwhites will help a criminal out of the kindness of their hearts! How...racist.

..for free!

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I'm so sick of these war cock sucking pentacunt 'military information operation' (the new name for PSYOP) movies that glorify war criminals, as soon as I read the storyline I closed the tab..

Now Mad Max 4 - Fury Road on the other hand IS a movie I'm waiting to see. 28 years ago Thunderdome was mere fantasy, but now more & more people see it's our future (between that and Soylent Green, with a bit of Bladerunner thrown in)