“Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” (** out of four) was a tired sequel to the 2012 adaptation of Lee Child’s blockbuster book starring Tom Cruise once again in the title role as a former military officer who has become a nomadic drifter and is framed for murder and is forced to take it on the run with a female officer (Coble Smulders) accused of espionage. A definite improvement over the original but that’s not saying much. Sporadically exciting but story is routine and hard to get involved in. Cruise is OK but miscast as Reacher. He should follow the title suggestion and “never go back” to this series and focus on his next “Mission: Impossible” movie instead.