Paul Wernick recommended Jerry Maguire (1996) in Movies (curated)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
8.0
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Ethan Hunt and his IMF team find themselves in a race against time after a mission goes wrong.
TheDefunctDiva (304 KP) rated Vanilla Sky (2001) in Movies
Sep 13, 2020
I'm starting to write succinct reviews on Twitter. The expanded versions will be found here or on my blog.
Jerry Maguire (1996)
8.2
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Tom Cruise gives his best performance to date (Neil Rosen, NY-1) as a sports agent who suddenly...
Mission: Impossible (1996)
7.5
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When U.S. government operative Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his mentor, Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), go...
David McK (3185 KP) rated Top Gun (1986) in Movies
Aug 26, 2020
"This is what in call a target rich environment"
"Son, your ego is writing cheques your body can't cash"
1980s action classic (that I was all of 7 when it was released) starring a then up and coming (and young!) Tom Cruise as Maverick, the hotshot pilot who gets a shot at Top Gun: the military training school for the top 1% of naval pilots.
This has a great cast (Michael Ironside, Val Kilmer, Kelly McGillis, Tom Cruise himself) alongside some great aerial battles, but does drag in bits.
A Few Good Men (1992)
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Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore star in Rob Reiner's unanimously acclaimed drama about the...
Jason (6 KP) rated Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Film Tie In) in Books
Jul 17, 2017
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
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A secret agent is sent to Sydney, to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Mummy (2017) in Movies
Feb 11, 2018 (Updated Feb 11, 2018)
There's a good reason why sensible studios don't try to make horror blockbusters, and especially horror blockbusters starring Tom Cruise - every time the film starts to be effectively creepy or atmospheric, along comes a CGI-enhanced chase sequence, or Tom Cruise doing that smirk, or some other manifestation of corporate blandness. Isn't Tom Cruise too old for this sort of thing? Watching him flirting with a considerably younger actress is by far the creepiest thing in the movie, and he seems quite incapable of the moral ambiguity the part probably requires - Russell Crowe, in the Samuel L Jackson plot-device-character role, acts him off the screen.
You scratch your head wondering how this thing is supposed to work - are all the monsters going to team up together? And do what, exactly? No-one seems to have thought this through. It's much more of a zombie movie than one about an actual mummy, anyway. The depiction of the one-way system in Oxford City Centre is also very misleading; I nearly knocked off a point because of it.