1. Reacher was travelling, following Blues Music roots - and just happens to stumble upon his brother's murder, who he hasn't spoke to in years?
2. The cop needs some help so he contacts his friend from another state - Pickard. Who just happens to be on the take in the counterfeiting ring?
Yes, don't pick it apart too much. It's fiction
shareLazy fiction, fed to the mindless masses who never realize or think about what they're watching, and eat it up willingly.
I forgive it this time because THAD is in it.
Most movies are about very unlikely coincidences.
shareDo you remember when fiction wasn't so lazy? I do too. Man, those were good times! Plots were interesting, actions were interesting, stories were complete and not hoping for sequels....
Shame audiences are so dummed down to expect random powers from super heros in the nick of time, they've forgotten writing could be good.
"Audiences are so dummed down. . ."
LMAOOOOOOO. You really couldn't make a lot of this up. Man, Alive.
Movies went to shit during WWII and didn't come back until the 70s, then gradually went to shit again. TV was shit until the 2000s and has steadily gotten better.
shareThe series, like the books, is simple and entertaining. No need to read too much into it.
shareI failed to notice when they boasted the movie to be either 100% realistic (although you do have from time to time weird coincidences in the real life as well) either a deep philosophical masterpiece ...
"The most amazing coincidence I know of is this: in Bermuda in 1975 a man was hit and killed while riding a moped by a taxi. exactly one year later, to the day, his brother was killed while riding the same moped. By the same taxi. Driven by the same driver."
"When Anthony Hopkins was preparing for his role in The Girl from Petrovka, he wanted to find a version of the book (written by George Feifer) so he could study it before filming began. But wherever he looked, he couldn't find a copy until one day, while sitting on the subway, he found a copy on the carriage in which he was travelling. But that's not the end, because when Hopkins later met the author, Feifer told him that he also didn't have a copy of the book. Why? Because he'd lent his last one to a friend, who had then accidentally lost it on the subway! "
Yeah the whole dead brother thing bugged me too. I was expecting them to eventually reveal the deeper reason as to why Reacher and his brother were both in that town, but no it was just random.
Dude just happened to drift into a town where his brother was investigating and just happened to get picked up for his murder? Weak ass plot contrivance there.
I bet 98% of people watching didn't even realize the BS co-incidences.
I know some will say 'they don't care'.
WRONG - It's not that the mindless masses don't care, but rather they are un-aware.
I didn't take it that it was just a coincidence that Reacher came to Margrave. Even though it wasn't mentioned, I think his brother contacted him for help.
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Nah, Reacher was as shocked as anyone that his brother was involved at all, much less a murder victim
It's a plot contrivance, but any story can be allowed one such contrivance to justify the story's existence. Otherwise there might be nothing remarkable about the story to make it worth telling
So yeah, both Reacher and his brother had a similar interest in blues, which might have had something to do with Joe following his leads to Margrave and definitely explains what Reacher himself was doing there
As for Pickard being dirty, it's implied that was always the case (Pickard initially warned him away from Margrave), so that's not much of a coincidence. It makes sense that an operation of that size would have contacts throughout the system.
Yeah, the "brother/same random town as dead brother" thing was a head-scratcher. The bad thing is that it wasn't a hard fix to connect it if you're a writer that gives a shit. Total laziness.
shareCould just be me but I thought the blues music roots was a cover story of sorts/sideline to why he was really in town.
It did seem like just about everyone was in on the ring.
That was a bit much. But it was faithful to the book that way.
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