Risky Business should be much higher.
Nah. I think the best movies of Tom Cruise are “Edge Of Tomorrow”, “War Of The Worlds”, the “Mission Impossible” series and “The Last Samurai”.
I have one disagreement- Tom Cruze as Reacher just falls short. To see a really great Reacher look at Amazon’s version. Alan Richson nails it.
Tom Cruise got better as he got older (except for Risky Business).
“Eyes Wide Shut” deserved last place.
He’s got a few great ones way too low on the list.
But I was very disappointed with the story in Dead Reckoning.
Edge of Tomorrow should be one. That was awesome
All his movies are worth the price of a ticket. Collateral, Jack Reacher, etc. MI III is still my favorite. His acting in Jerry Maguire is excellent.
“The Firm” was mediocre. I regret having seen “Risky Business” in my youth. “Taps” was pretty good. I haven’t seen the rest.
I wanted to like ‘Top Gun Maverick’ so I went to see it on the big screen. Something I rarely do anymore. I thought it was just an average pic that I’ve seen the same type of plot played out in many many other movies.
Sadly, I was disappointed in it. I’m surprised to see this very average, even boring and very predictable flick the #1 on the list. I mean, for gosh sake’s even the flight scenes were just closeups of the helmeted faces mostly.
I love movies
Am unimpressed by Cruse
Great actor. Tom Cruise was my generation’s movie star.
When we were in high school, he played a teenage cadet in “Taps.” Then he played Joel in “Risky Business.”
In our 20’s, as we tried to get ahead in the workforce, he was playing those roles in the movies.
As we fell in love, started families, divorced... he was playing it out in his movie roles.
I don’t know where it ends up... I guess one day, when we grow older, he’ll play an old man.
I didn’t see all his films, but I loved the ones I saw.
My favorites were his roles in “Rain Man,” “Jerry Maguire,” and “War of the Worlds.”
My top 4 are (in no particular order):
The Color of Money (I think this was his best performance)
Top Gun
Top Gun: Maverick (I thought the finale was too not believable, buy hey, it was still a good movie)
Rain Man
If I were making a top 5 list, I’m not sure what I’d put at number 5. He’s horribly miscast in the Reacher movies. None of the Mission Impossible movies stick in my memory. I didn’t like A Few Good Men. There are a lot of his movies I didn’t like, some of those were some of his better performances.
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As a fan of Lee Child's series, I hate that Cruise was allowed to take this role.
Amazon Prime has an excellent series of Reacher, with an actor taller than 5'10". (Jack is 6'5" and 230-250 lbs)
The 8 episodes on Prime are 1 book. Can't wait for season 2!
Big TC fan here, esp the 2 Top Gun movies.
Valkyrie would have been much better if they had put Thomas Kretschmann as Von Stauffenberg, instead. But I guess he didn’t have the star power.
"Movies are communist satanic propaganda! I only watch Gunsmoke reruns on the ole' B&W!"
Just kidding. I still have never sat down and watched a single Mission Impossible film so while I loved the latest Top Gun, my vote is gonna have to go to either Risky Business or Tropic Thunder for the top.
I’ve seen them all and would have to say there were various levels of remarkabliity but everyone was entertaining for me. Tom Cruise may have some quirks in his personal life but he’s a mighty fine performer
Ken Watanabi stole “the Last Samurai” from Cruise. It’s really a Watanabi movie with Cruise as a co-star