The Cruise Redemption

Rating: 8/10 (14 September 2017)

Good film. No masterpiece but a well written biopic and definitely a career saving project for Tom Cruise, who finally gives an interesting performance again. He was not Award-Great or anything, in fact there were some mannerisms about his performance that were not quite fitting or sometimes a bit annoying or unbelievable BUT it was still a fine performance in its whole essence and if he keeps doing those projects he might redeem himself. Domhnall Gleason gave the best performance in the film as CIA Agent who recruites Cruise and makes one mistake after the other hence to his adorable naivety. Gleason is perfect for that role. Sarah Wright was miscast. First of all she was far too sexy and beautiful for that role second of all far too young to play Cruise's wife. Was not believable. Always good to see Jesse Plemons although he was a bit wasted in a short and not so important role. The screenplay was clever, funny, had some nice twists and room for entertaining action sequences, that were not over the top but smoothly fit into the whole thing. I think it deserves a more talented director than Doug Liman but besides that a nice con biopic set in nice 70a/80s nostalgia.