Sentences with phrase «reachers who»

So he is looking ahead to chaos theory just as Keats is looking ahead to him and Poincare, and at the same time Bohr is placing on the scientist the same burden of irony that Keats places on all irritable reachers who demand a systematic clarity that will end the matter.

He was a precomplementarity irritable reacher who might have benefited from chaos theory, learning from it that the Dynamo did not necessarily cancel out the Virgin as a reputable source of truth and energy.

Still, the movie is a rental at best and only then for fans of Cruise and Reacher who aren't expecting much.

There's the feisty and swear - y Amelia Reacher who pilots a rover; the rather demented Dr. Scot Seeker who probably should never be allowed near a syringe or other pointy implement; hulking mutant Phobos who seeks to aid his brothers and sisters; Aiesha, who is just sort of there throughout the game, and Andrew, a one - armed bloke with links to the Technomancers and Zach's past.

Not exact matches

A reacher is someone who «reaches out» to someone more attractive than they are.

They worked together on Mr. McQuarrie's adaptation of «Jack Reacher,» a grim genre bummer that was a bad fit for Mr. Cruise, who can rarely go tough and dark with conviction.

The person occupying the rotating director's chair this time around is Christopher McQuarrie, a frequent Cruise collaborator (he directed Jack Reacher) who is best known for his screenwriting (he won an Oscar for penning The Usual Suspects and has writing credits on past Cruise films like Valkyrie and Edge of Tomorrow.)

An ever adventurous and acutely observational storyteller who has cinematically explored live volcanoes, Antarctica, and the menacing company of Klaus Kinski, Herzog is also a highly self - aware creature, as evidenced by his self - satirizing participation in the 2004 mockumentary Incident at Loch Ness and his later stunt casting as a villain in Jack Reacher.

Jack Reacher is a man who thrives on working alone, and this dull tale of backstabbing militant leeches proves that fact tenfold.

After the commercial and critical success of director Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, Rogue Nation's Christopher McQuarrie, who also directed Cruise in the mostly meh Jack Reacher, has his work cut out for him.

In Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Reacher finds himself being hunted by the military while simultaneously investigating a young girl who might be his daughter.

Ryan Reynolds (R.I.P.D., Safe House) plays Matthew, an Ontarian father who loses his nine - year - old daughter Cassandra (Fast, Jack Reacher) one day while leaving her in his parked truck while he runs into a store.

Now he'll have a chance to shine as Linsky, a criminal who works for the villain to be played by Werner Herzog, as Jack Reacher (Cruise) tries to uncover the truth behind a strange set of sniper killings in which they're involved.

Tom Cruise plays Jack Reacher, an ex-military cop who is called upon to assist the prime suspect in a series of sniper murders.

Courtney will be playing one of the bad guys, a highly trained sniper who tries to keep Reacher from finding out the truth.

I know there are people who don't love the idea of Tom Cruise playing Lee Child «s hulking and coldly / violently capable hero Jack Reacher.

Christopher McQuarrie «s adaptation of Lee Child «s thriller novel One Shot is moving forward with Tom Cruise in the lead role of hulking ex-military cop Jack Reacher, who is drawn into a strange plot involving sniper shootings in a mid-size town.

Releasing on October 21, 2016, Tom Cruise's second outing as Jack Reacher (a character who would have been more appropriately cast with Michael Shannon) is Hollywood bread - and - butter.

You have to wonder how much of that enjoyment stemmed from director Brad Bird as Hunt's latest adventure, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, directed by Christopher McQuarrie (who worked with Cruise in Jack Reacher) does little more than create some amazing set pieces for the 53 - year - old actor to leap, swim, and jump off of.

Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders) is the Army Major who heads Reacher's old -LSB-...]

They're selling this mostly with the angle of Reacher - is - a-badass like John Wick or Jason Bourne, who can take out anyone even though everyone underestimates him.

Other books released the same day include the latest Jack Reacher from Lee Child, The Midnight Line; the latest installment continuing the Stieg Larsson's Millenium series, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz; and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng which has had rave reviews from the likes of Matt Haig and Reese Witherspoon.

And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business.

Books linked together by some connecting theme (think of John Gray's «Mars and Venus» books), or by some appealing character (think: Harry Potter, Jack Reacher, Stephanie Plum, Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Mitch Rapp, Mike Hammer, Scot Harvath, Sean Dillon, Spenser, Elvis Cole, Joe Pike, etc., etc.), will foster a virtual addiction in your fans, who will then eagerly await the publication date for every new installment in the series.

«My books are often compared in their genre to Lee Child, so one of the things that I do on Facebook is to serve ads just to people who know or like Lee Child — fans of his fan page, fans of the Jack Reacher fan page, and so on.

For those who don't read the genre, Lee Child is the # 1 international thriller writer of the Jack Reacher novels.

Reacher follows the trail to New York, where he confronts the people who dispatched the dead man: an elderly couple still mourning an all - American son lost in Vietnam; an alluring and intelligent woman from Reacher's own haunted past; and at the center of the web, an opponent more vicious than any he's ever faced.

In Tripwire, Reacher is settling into lazy Key West when his life is interrupted by a stranger who comes looking for him.

Firstly, the supremely confident Reacher, who has rarely felt a moment of doubt in his life as we know it, finds himself measuring his life choices as a drifter against those of his colleagues, who all enjoy various degrees of personal or professional success as measured by normal societal standards.

[I] f you're casting Jack Reacher, a French / American ex-military cop who stands 6» 5?

From these thoughts came the idea for his 11th Reacher novel, in which Reacher is reunited with members of his team from ten years ago, people that he loved fiercely and respected deeply, including Francis Neagley who was previously seen in Without Fail.

Reacher, who easily disposes of two hit men sent to get him, winds up trying to solve a decades - old case concerning a missing eight - year - old girl.

Reacher later breaking Seth's nose prompts members of the Duncan clan, who are involved in an illegal trafficking scheme, to seek revenge.