Cruise’s initially callow Charlie has the true character arc of the film, and Cruise’s fantastically modulated work anchors the movie, even because the already assured younger star concedes the highlight to Hoffman’s extra showy efficiency. The movie itself is modest, formulaic to a level, and but heat and humorous. This and the much less efficient The Coloration of Cash from two years earlier symbolize a turning level for Cruise’s maturity as an actor.
11. Jack Reacher (2012)
Sure, we all know: Jack Reacher in Lee Youngster’s books is a monster of a person—six-foot-five!—whereas Tom Cruise is sort of a foot shorter (he’s five-seven). We notice that Alan Ritchson, who at the moment performs Reacher on the Prime Video collection, is a way more bodily correct model of the character. However, admittedly by no means having learn the books, we nonetheless discover a lot to love in Cruise’s powerful, no-nonsense, darkish efficiency because the mysterious drifter who helps individuals remedy their issues.
Cruise is entrance and middle and does his half justice, and even if the script is fairly routine, the motion is terrific. We imply, who doesn’t like a film the place Werner Herzog is solid as a terrifying Russian villain? We respect Reacher followers (and in the end Youngster himself) not caring for Cruise’s work right here, however we dig it. Then again, the sequel (Jack Reacher: By no means Go Again) simply plain sucks.
10. Minority Report (2002)
Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg solely collaborated twice, however each tasks have been science fiction and each proved to be among the many darkest movies of every man’s profession (the opposite is 2005’s War of the Worlds). Minority Report is predicated on a Philip Ok. Dick quick story and stars Cruise as John Anderton, the grief-stricken, drug-addicted head of a specialised police division referred to as Precrime. The experimental operation prevents crime by arresting the perpetrator earlier than the crime ever occurs thanks to 3 psychics who can foresee the long run. Naturally, Anderton himself is quickly fingered by the psychics, referred to as Precogs, and goes on the run as he tries to show he’s harmless of a homicide he’s but to commit.
This one is a winner all around, from Spielberg’s breathless route to Cruise’s complicated efficiency (and a putting supporting flip by then-newcomer Colin Farrell). Even the world-building of the movie, which envisions a society the place surveillance of every kind (together with promoting) is omniscient and ever-present, appeared to foretell a lot of our fashionable world right this moment. It’s an immersive, kinetic thriller, marred solely by certainly one of Spielberg’s famously tacked-on “completely happy” endings, making for the one flaw in an in any other case top-notch collaboration.
9. Interview with the Vampire (1994)
We’re sufficiently old to recollect when late creator Anne Rice objected to the casting of Tom Cruise as her signature creation, the vampire Lestat, solely to show round and admit she was mistaken after truly seeing Cruise carry out the function within the movie. And we bear in mind how we felt seeing Cruise in his 18th century vampire garb as effectively: tickled and entranced by his larger-than-life, decadent, campy efficiency, virtually totally not like the rest he had finished as much as that time. Eyes glittering, blonde wig flowing, and enamel stained with blood, Cruise is decadent and deliciously evil within the function.
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