We’re taking risks, with crazy hot shots. Tom Cruise once did Lots of good movies. we know! Shocking and controversial, but coming from Top Gun and rain Manarrive “Mulan”, “Eyes Wide Shut”, “A Few Good Men”, “The Color of Money”, “Jerry Maguire”, There are many, many morewe think this makes sense.
Cruise turns 62 today, which seems almost as crazy as the statement above. He certainly doesn’t look like a nearly elderly person, but maybe that’s because he dabbled in so many science fiction novels. Throughout his career, Cruise has not only made a plethora of traditional blockbusters and Oscar-winning films, but also a number of high-concept sci-fi films, many of which are brilliant, and some of which are not.
Below, we’ve ranked Cruise’s sci-fi/fantasy movies, and there are a few surprises.
8. mummy (2017)
Oh boy. We could write an encyclopedia on everything mummy and Already close. But a simple example is that Cruise’s vision for the Universal Monsters franchise was to make the film about himself, rather than the titular character. A dark universe indeed.
7. legend (1985)
honestly, mummy is Tom Cruise’s only bad sci-fi movie. legend It’s actually pretty good, just a little worse than the movies above. Ridley Scott directed this wide-ranging fantasy, best known for Tim Curry’s unforgettable character Darkness.
6. vanilla sky (2001)
Cameron Crowe’s Spanish film remake open your eyes This is a chilling, bizarre, and vastly underrated story of a man who experienced incredible loss and sought to abuse and exploit science and medicine for his own personal gain. It’s not an easy movie to watch or digest, but it’s an unforgettable one. One of those movies that only Tom Cruise could make.
5. forget (2013)
To be honest, I kind of love forget. certainly, It’s just a mashup of all the sci-fi ideas It was popular in the 1980s and 1990s, but for its size and beauty, it didn’t really get the attention it deserved.
4. Visit the Vampire (1994)
Cruise co-starred with Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst in this early adaptation of the Anne Rice novel, which has been given some new life lately Because of the AMC show. This version, written by Rice herself, is more faithful to the text than that show, yet is gothic and engaging.
3. world war (2005)
Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg team up for this adaptation of HG Wells’ novel about a father who protects his children during an alien invasion. It’s everything one has come to expect from Spielberg, big and bold, but perhaps just a little lacking due to the director’s other films and the pair’s previous collaborations.
2. minority report (2002)
if minority reportdoes not exist, world war It will be a little more special. But it exists, and it’s great. Together, Cruise and Spielberg finally give us a remarkable, thrilling sci-fi adventure about a man who stops a crime before it happens, and then finds himself the target of the chase. us Much has been written about it here.
1.5 Trapped in the closet
Although he was not explicitly involved or involved in this iconic episode South Parkwe thought it was worth at least mentioning before ranking #1…
1. edge of tomorrow (2014)
edge of tomorrow This isn’t just Tom Cruise’s best sci-fi movie, it’s probably one of his best movies. Director Doug Liman created the film from a script co-written by Christopher McQuarrie An electric, intense, roller coaster of time travel and alien invasion. Cruise is having a blast alongside co-star Emily Blunt, and we’re still holding out hope for a sequel.
Honorable Mention: Mission: Impossible Movie
this mission Impossible The movies are certainly not science fiction, but they are what we at io9 like to call “spy novels.” It’s a very specific, believable cross-section of action and fictional technology that we love and report on here on the site, but for the purposes of this list, we’ve chosen to ignore. but myocardial infarction The movie is great and, Well…6-1-4-3-5-7-2.
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