All the ingredients to make an action series with its shots, keys, blows and chases in that quest for the truth
Jack Ryan, Jack Reacher and James Reece. Literary children of Tom Clancy, Lee Child and Jack Carr, who have been fined (in the case of the former, his heirs) for selling the rights to their characters to Prime Video. Three connections for three series with action characters. We already know Ryan very well thanks to the cinema (Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck or Chris Pine brought him to life) and that series that launched the streaming network in 2018 with much fanfare. After two seasons, we hope for third place. When? An unknown, although it is announced that a fourth is coming.
Reacher changed from Tom Cruise to giant Alan Ritchson at the start of the year and with the summer heat Reece appeared on our screens with the face of Chris Pratt in ‘The final list’. The last jack missing from the platform and possibly the one that met the least expectations. The opening idea is correct and expected: a burly leader of a special forces group returns home after a mission in Syria where all his companions die. On his return, he sets out to find the reason for this disaster and what dark interests lie behind an accident of this magnitude.
All the ingredients to make an action series with its shots, keys, blows and chases in that quest for the truth. ‘The Final List’ offers that action, and surprisingly believable, but watered down into a way too long and boring overall story. Each chapter is close to the hour. There’s more or less eight hours of footage to tell a book that isn’t five hundred pages. Without so many things to tell, so many unnecessary scenes to show in the middle of the road, the result of the series would have been rounder and much more enjoyable.
Source: La Verdad
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