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Originally posted by Not Bob
I think that it is his recent wackiness -- it seems like in the last two years or so he has gotten weirder. It seems like he has been a nutjob ever since the divorce from Nicole Kidman, when all he would say about it was an evil-sounding "Nic knows why I am leaving her."
I think that he's a decent actor. I hated "Minority Report" but not because of him. I also hated "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Vanilla Sky" for reasons other than their Cruiseishness. I just saw "The Last Samurai" on DVD, and I kinda liked it.
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I have never been a fan but only started hating him with Cocktail, which is so cringingly embarrasingly bad I can hardly believe it didn't kill his career. I thought he was well-cast in Jerry Maguire, because he was supposed to be a bit of prick in that movie, but I didn't really buy that he was redeemed by some hard knocks, true love, and the success he gained by looking out for someone else who was going to look after himself regardless of what Jerry did. (Does that make sense?) In other words, his puppy dog schtick at the end didn't fool me. I also didn't think that was such a fantabulous movie. Mission Impossible was a piece of shit, and if I were Tom Cruise and possessed of a normal ego I would feel like the Bourne Identity was the movie MI should have been. Minority Report was okay and it made good use of the nearly-manic intensity in his gaze, which was also put to good use in the Firm. He wasn't bad in A Few Good Men, I'll give him that, but he was playing against Demi Moore a lot of the time, so there you go. I can't even comment on Top Gun.
Bottom line is that I don't understand his monstrous success. His is not a face or a voice or a personality that I can't get enough of on screen.
