### Jack Reacher Never Go Back 2016 Reacher % 3 ANeverGoBack % 282016 % 29 Action , Adventure , Crime , Mystery , Thriller Patrick Heusinger , Sean Boyd , Dalton Alfortish , Kirk H . Andersen Director Edward ZwickIMDb rating Unknown awaiting five votes Jack Reacher Never Go Back is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Edward Zwick and written by Zwick , Richard Wenk and Marshall Herskovitz . A sequel to the 2012 film Jack Reacher , the film stars Tom Cruise , Cobie Smulders , Patrick Heusinger , Aldis Hodge , Danika Yarosh and Holt McCallany . The plot follows Reacher going ontherun with an Army Major who has been framed for espionage . WikipediaCritical reception Jack Reacher Never Go Back received mixed to negative reviews from critics . On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 38 %, based on reviews from 184 reviews , with an average rating of 5 . 210 . The site ' s critical consensus states Monotonously formulaic , Jack Reacher Never Go Back is one action thriller sequel whose title also serves as a warning . On Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating , the film has a score 47 out of 100 , based on reviews from 43 critics , indicating mixed or average reviews . On CinemaScore , audiences gave the film an average grade of B on an A to F scale . WikipediaMore info at Reacher % 3 ANeverGoBack % 282016 % 29 , Jack % 20 Reacher % 3 A % 20 Never % 20 Go % 20 Back , Rotten Tomatoes , reachernevergoback , . I am a bot . Send me feedback % 2 Fr % 2 FMovieGuidesubjectRe % 3 A % 20 Confidence 0 . 88 . Data sources and other i n f ormationrMovieGuidewabout .