There are only so many ways to repackage Top Gun and Tom Cruise is getting a little old to be a matinee idol. He never was much of an actor anyway, and his personal peculiarities have caught up with him.
Johnny Depp can only play so many pirates and is a weird disaster in anything else. That Tonto thing with the dead bird on his head, what on earth were they thinking?
The industry is losing control, the crowds aren’t materializing, their old formula isn’t working and their stable of “stars” is dwindling. Overt politicization has offended a good percentage. Other avenues of entertainment are cutting into the audience.
I don’t think there will be another Tom Cruise in his heyday, the critical mass is just no longer there to support it, and he really wasn’t all that great to begin with.
***That Tonto thing with the dead bird on his head,***
You want dead birds on the head? Rent the old movie A MAN CALLED HORSE. Authentic Indian costumes. One had a dead buzzard on his head.
Justin Beeper as James Bond