Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher (2012)

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Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, when Charlie is setting up to shoot, he pulls the slide back on his rifle and the bullets are shown. They are in the rifle backwards.

Correction: The ammunition is not in backwards, the camera angle changes to a reverse direction. When Charlie starts to pull the slide back, the tips of the ammo would be facing to the viewer's right (Charlie's left). Thus, during the close up, the viewer expects the camera just "zoomed in" and the tips should still be pointing to the viewer's right. But the camera switches to an overhead shot from Charlie's prospective and the tips are pointing to the viewer's left, which is still Charlie's left.

Bishop73

Correction: You are completely wrong. The scene at 24:14 depicts the action in standard view and there is no way the bullet points should be facing against the action of the feed.

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie when Jack drives the Mercedes in reverse you can hear him going trough the gears. There's only one reverse gear. There are no more gears.

Paul Moortgat

Correction: Indeed it only has one reverse gear, but what you're hearing is Jack getting on and off the throttle as he maneuvers the car backwards through the quarry. If he had just gone full speed he would have likely spun out or hit an obstacle prematurely.

Corrected entry: If the shooter was parallel to the victims, on the bridge, then the police would have known where the shots had come from. Especially the water-bottle shot. If the shots had come from a 90-degree angle (as compared to shots from the parking garage) they would have definitely known it.

Correction: They did know where the shots had come from. The reveal was not that they came from a different location than supposed, but that the man framed knew better than to shoot from the location the shooting came from, thus helping to prove his innocence.

Phixius

Audio problem: When Reacher reverses out of the motel parking lot, a car is seen braking hard to avoid hitting him and honking. The audio sound of the car horn has a "doppler effect", sounding like a passing vehicle, but the car doesn't pass the viewer as it comes to a halt in frame.

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Jack Reacher: You think I'm a hero? I am not a hero. And if you're smart, that scares you. Because I have nothing to lose.

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Trivia: A point in the score from this, by Joe Kraemer, inspired The Batman's signature motif by Michael Giacchino. After the phone call between Jack and Helen when he warns her potentially not to trust her father, he's driving across a bridge and the music is almost identical to the "bom...bombom...bom" theme from The Batman.

Jon Sandys

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Question: How did Reacher know it was James Barr who killed those men in Baghdad? Unless there was a forensic sweep on the bodies or for shell casings, how was he caught? There could have been multiple army snipers in the general area who could have committed the act.

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