We’re going to exit on a limb right here with a loopy scorching take. Tom Cruise has made numerous good films. We all know! Stunning and controversial, however from High Gun and Rain Man, to Magnolia, Eyes Extensive Shut, A Few Good Males, The Coloration of Cash, Jerry Maguire, and many many more, we predict it’s warranted.
Cruise turns 62 in the present day, which appears nearly as loopy because the above assertion. He definitely doesn’t seem like a close to senior citizen, however perhaps that’s as a result of he’s dabbled in so much science fiction. All through his profession, Cruise has not solely made loads of conventional blockbusters and Oscar fare, however a number of excessive idea sci-fi too, a lot of that are unbelievable, others of which aren’t.
Under, we’ve obtained our rating of Cruise’s sci-fi/fantasy movies, with just a few surprises alongside the best way.
8. The Mummy (2017)
Ooo boy. We may write encyclopedias about every thing that went unsuitable with The Mummy and have come close already. However one fast instance is that Cruise’s tackle the Common Monsters franchise was to make the film about himself and never the titular character. A darkish universe, certainly.
7. Legend (1985)
Truthfully, The Mummy is the one dangerous Tom Cruise sci-fi film. Legend is definitely fairly good, simply perhaps rather less so than the movies above it. Ridley Scott directs the sweeping fantasy finest identified for Tim Curry’s unforgettable character, Darkness.
6. Vanilla Sky (2001)
Cameron Crowe’s remake of the Spanish movie Open Your Eyes is a creepy, bizarre, massively underrated story of a person who experiences unimaginable loss, and tries to abuse and make the most of science and medication for his personal private acquire. Not a simple film to observe or digest, however a memorable one nonetheless. A kind of films solely Tom Cruise may do.
5. Oblivion (2013)
I actually form of love Oblivion. Certain, it’s just a remix of every sci-fi idea made widespread within the Eighties and Nineties, but it surely’s sprawling, it’s lovely, and doesn’t actually get the eye it deserves.
4. Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Cruise stars alongside Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst on this early adaptation of the Anne Rice novel, which has seen some new lifetime of late due to the AMC show. This model, written by Rice herself, is extra devoted to the unique textual content than that present, however no much less gothic and interesting.
3. Struggle of the Worlds (2005)
Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg teamed up for this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel a few father defending his kids throughout an alien invasion. It’s large and daring in all of the methods one would anticipate from Spielberg, however perhaps simply falls a bit quick due to the director’s different movies, and the pair’s earlier collaboration.
2. Minority Report (2002)
If Minority Report didn’t exist, Struggle of the Worlds could be only a tad extra particular. But it surely does exist and it’s nice. It’s Cruise and Spielberg collectively eventually giving us an exceptional, thrilling sci-fi journey a few man who stops crimes earlier than they occur, after which finds himself the article of a chase. We wrote a ton more about it here.
1.5 Trapped within the Closet
Although he’s not explicitly in, or part of, this iconic episode of South Park, we thought it was not less than price mentioning earlier than attending to primary…
1. Fringe of Tomorrow (2014)
Fringe of Tomorrow isn’t simply Tom Cruise’s finest sci-fi film, it could be one in every of his finest films, interval. Director Doug Liman, from a script co-written by Christopher McQuarrie, creates an electric, intense, roller coaster ride of time travel and alien invasion. Cruise shines together with co-star Emily Blunt and we’re nonetheless holding out hope {that a} sequel occurs.
Honorable Point out: The Mission Inconceivable films
The Mission: Inconceivable films aren’t sci-fi after all, however they’re what we at io9 likes to name “spy-fi.” It’s a really particular cross-section of plausible motion with fictionalized expertise that we love and canopy on the positioning however, for functions of this record, have chosen to disregard. However the MI films are nice and, well…6-1-4-3-5-7-2.
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