Most people would probably say the Jack Reacher nonsense. Other than those can you think of a bad one? Vanilla Sky and Eyes Wide Shut were a little off to me, but I still will watch EWS from time to time.

You can say what you want about his weird Oprah thing, but the guy is amazing. I'm watching Last Samurai for the first time and it's really good.

Anyone? Other than Reacher, what was his worst movie? Is there one?

IMO, the Reacher movies are fun films, and Cruise is good in the role. The part folks can't get over is how miscast he was given the character is supposed to be physically imposing. Like 6 ft 5, 260 pounds. If you can forgive that, then the films themselves are good.

Worst of his films I've seen would be Rock of Ages. Not necessarily his fault, as he went all out, but it's pretty terrible.

Cocktail did not hold up well.

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IMO, the Reacher movies are fun films, and Cruise is good in the role. The part folks can't get over is how miscast he was given the character is supposed to be physically imposing. Like 6 ft 5, 260 pounds. If you can forgive that, then the films themselves are good.

Worst of his films I've seen would be Rock of Ages. Not necessarily his fault, as he went all out, but it's pretty terrible.

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IDK, the music in RoA kinda made up for the weirdness for me. Plus the girl wasn't hard to look at.

Having not read the books, I like the Reacher movies.

The Mummy

Legend

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Legend

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I liked Legend. At the very least, it had a typically insane Tim Curry role.

All the Right Moves

Guess nobody here besides me has seen "Losin' it", huh?

Easily number 1 on this list.

Vanilla Sky. One of the few movies I've walked out of. Didn't want to waste another hour of my life. Never saw Magnolia but it looked terrible also.

He's more than made up for it though with so many fantastic movies.

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All the Right Moves

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Double post. Sorry

All the right moves was great.

Cocktail is my least favorite of his movies by far.

I like the Reacher movies.

Favorite movie- Collateral

brew82 said:

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Cocktail is my least favorite of his movies by far.

I like the Reacher movies.

Favorite movie- Collateral

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Wow, two threads on same topic posted within 2 minutes of each other! Just noticed it's the same op. Bravo!

I liked Cocktail, I first saw it when I started bartending in college. Days of Thunder is basically Top Gun / Cocktail with NASCAR. Vanilla Sky was awful.

The Mummy is definitely up there.

Cruise sure does make a lot of great movies from all different genres. As a period epic, I think the Last Samurai is absolutely amazing and may be my favorite Cruise movie. It is beautiful both visually and script-wise. All of the acting is absolutely amazing and I think it is probably Cruise's best performance. He is also mirrored by a fantastic performance by Ken Watanabi.

Then you add that to the movies I would consider some of the best action on movies of the last decade, Top Gun: Maverick and the Mission Impossible movies. One of the few actors I immediately know gives everything to the film he is making.

Knight and day

Vanilla Sky is one of my favorite Tom Cruise movies.

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Cocktail did not hold up well.

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I like this movie.

I felt like vanilla sky had a wtf Stephen king colossal letdown ending. It's not horrible but man it missed the mark in a lot of ways. Penelope Cruz was horrid for sure.

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Guess nobody here besides me has seen "Losin' it", huh?

Easily number 1 on this list.

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Losing it is great

Legend is his worst movie

$240 Worth of Pudding said:

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Guess nobody here besides me has seen "Losin' it", huh?

Easily number 1 on this list.

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C'mon…it's got Shelly Long and Kelly Leak from Bad News Bears with a sock in his pants, what's not to love.

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All the Right Moves

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All the Right Moves has Lea Thompson naked in it. If you're around my age that alone should bump it out of the worst spot.

The Mummy

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I felt like vanilla sky had a wtf Stephen king colossal letdown ending. It's not horrible but man it missed the mark in a lot of ways. Penelope Cruz was horrid for sure.

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I wanted Tom and Penelope to get married so she would be Penelope Cruz-Cruise

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The Mummy is definitely up there.

Cruise sure does make a lot of great movies from all different genres. As a period epic, I think the Last Samurai is absolutely amazing and may be my favorite Cruise movie. It is beautiful both visually and script-wise. All of the acting is absolutely amazing and I think it is probably Cruise's best performance. He is also mirrored by a fantastic performance by Ken Watanabi.

Then you add that to the movies I would consider some of the best action on movies of the last decade, Top Gun: Maverick and the Mission Impossible movies. One of the few actors I immediately know gives everything to the film he is making.

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I'm a huge fan of The Last Samurai, even with the historical liberties. Totally agree, the cinematography, script, and performances are all wonderful.

The worst Cruise movie I've actually seen is probably Never Go Back (although I did like the first Reacher movie a lot), but I haven't seen Legend. Cocktail hasn't aged very well either. I'd put that in the "guilty pleasure" category.

Regardless, Cruise never mails it in. I can't think of a movie that was bad because of his performance. He gives 110% to every role. Got to admire that.

I liked it too at the time. But I watched it a few years ago and it just came across as 80's cheesy. It's only got a 5.9 now now IMDb as well, I would bet if IMDB existed at the time it would have been much higher in the first few years.

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Knight and day

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Knight and Day isn't good but it's a perfectly pleasant cheesebad movie.

Mummy is my vote.

I'll throw out Rock of Ages and Mission Impossible 2 as outliers.

Collateral is his most underrated.

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The Dirty Sock said:

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Knight and day

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Knight and Day isn't good but it's a perfectly pleasant cheesebad movie.

Mummy is my vote.

I'll throw out Rock of Ages and Mission Impossible 2 as outliers.

Collateral is his most underrated.

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Agree on Collateral. I also think I may be the only person that liked Valkyrie, it doesn't get mentioned alot.

Valkyrie is bad ass. My wife and I have watched it 8-10 times. Killer cast.

Tropic Thunder

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Agree on Collateral. I also think I may be the only person that liked Valkyrie, it doesn't get mentioned alot.

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ROFL. I read your response before reading the post you were responding to. So when I read "Agree on Collateral", I was about to rage post. Great movie.

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Tropic Thunder

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... I don't even have words for how bad your taste in movies is.