Reacher – Papier

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Reacher – Papier
  • IMDb: link

With the show entering its final three episodes, “Papier” starts to answer questions and fill in gaps to the larger picture about the counterfeiting ring working out of Margrave. Reacher (Alan Ritchson) and Finlay’s (Malcolm Goodwin) stakeout may not give them what they expect, but it does explain what Finlay is doing in Georgia and the past which continues to weigh on him. If the stakeout fails, Reacher does get answers from one of two returning professors (the other ends up dead before our hero can reach them). Here he learns about the importance of $100 bills and begins to make ties to what he knows about the pollution and the money shipments to Venezuela. 

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Radiant Red #1

/ / Comics

Radiant Red is a spin-off of an Image Comics mini-series I never read, Radiant Black. As expected, this creates some challenges for the reader. The main character is middle school teacher Satomi Shen, and super-powered criminal and bank robber Radiant Red. Since the comic doesn’t go that in-depth on how her powers and costume work, I’m assuming that knowledge would have been part of the Radiant Black series. The gist seems to be, she’s done bad things in the past and has attempted to put that life behind her.

What we do get in Radiant Red #1 is a look at Shen’s personal life. We also are introduced to a pair of people snooping around including a reporter and someone of less scrupulous means who have a sudden interest in the bank robber. It looks like the past hasn’t stayed buried, but I’m not sure I’ll stick around for five issues to see where this one eventually leads.

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No Exit

/ / Home Video
  • Title: No Exit
  • IMDb: link

No Exit offers your basic braindead low-budget thriller when a group of strangers find themselves stuck together at a visitors center on the side of the highway during a blizzard. Havana Rose Liu stars as a recovering addict who ditches rehab on hearing that her mother is in the hospital. What she discovers is at least one of the people snowed-in with her (Danny Ramirez, David Rysdahl, Dennis Haysbert, and Dale Dickey) isn’t who they are pretending to be.

Rather than confronting the group, our protagonist attempts to play amateur detective. This turns into another in a line of really bad life decisions which will end up getting people killed. Not all that thrilling, and burdened with some lackluster twists, No Exit doesn’t offer much beyond the bare bones of its cliched plot offering a group of characters but providing no reason for us to care about their survival.

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