Tom Cruise
Starting with Risky Business in 1983, where
he plays a rebellious teen living at home with Mom and Dad,
to Top Gun the box-office smash he made in 1986, Tom Cruise
has been on a roll. He went on to make The Color Of Money
with Paul Newman and the brilliant Cocktail with Bryan Brown
and Elizabeth Shue, all box-office successes, which placed
Tom Cruise right at the top of the Hollywood A-list. Then
he made the classic Rainman with Dustin Hoffman and from great
film he went on to great film. In Born On The Fourth Of July
Tom Cruise began to really stretch his talent and showed the
world he is much, much more than just another pretty face
and continued to develop as an actor in A Few Good men where
he stole the show in the great court room scene when Cruise's
Navy lawyer character challenges Jack Nicholson's ferocious
Colonel Nathan Jessop - one of cinema's great moments...
Then we see Tom Cruise in Grisham's The Firm,
a clever film that holds the audience like glue, but Cruise
doesn't rest, he just keeps challenging himself and next up
was Interview With a Vampire with Brad Pitt and, in my opinion,
the best vampire film made to date...
Tom Cruise has also been one of Hollywood's
great success stories as a producer, putting his producer's
hat on when he made Mission Impossible, a film that has spawned
a fanchise series, all starring Tom Cruise as the consumate
acton hero Ethan Hunt.
However, my personal favourite Tom Cruise film
comes from my favourite director Michael Mann, with whom Tom
Cruise teamed up with to make Collateral. Tom Cruise simply
gets better and better and the skies the limit for how far
he will yet stretch his remarkable talent...
Tim Rees
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