The only movie Tom Cruise is actually acting and he is brilliant at it

Rating: 9/10 (14 September 2018)

Personally I don't really like tom cruise because I wanna see something beyond good looks and a good smile in a movie I'm watching, like good acting. The first time I watched this movie it took me halfway through it to notice brad pitt was in it. To date, the picture that pops into my mind when I hear the word "vampire" is tom cruise.
Unlike any other movies of his he is lively, passionate, caught up in the role. He is not playing but actually living the character. Anne Rice apparently handpicked him for the role as Susan Batson stated to me once. That conversation revealed far more than that but I respect her privacy too much to disclose.
Brad Pitt here is just average. Louis is actually one of his worse performances but he beautifully is the beautiful vampire with a human soul writhing in the existential agony of being a parasite to all that he loved.
Kirsten Dunst is just beautiful here; disturbing, twisted, painful yet hungry for the love of one vampire that no one seems to be able to share.
The whole theatricality of the movie aside, Banderas' I think had another thing on his mind and the director indulged him so we have all the extra theatricality we couldn't appreciate more. I am not talking about the dialogues here, I am talking about the way he moved and talked and glanced.
All that said, I don't really like the homosexual undertone (I aint even sure I can call it an undertone since it is so damn obvious) in the movie, didn't read the books but afaik it is supposed to be even gayer in the books. There could have been a better implementation of the love dynamics between the characters aside from going just gay. Anne rice is to blame for that I think.
So its nine stars even with all the unnecessary homosexuality, largely thanks to Tom Cruise's brilliant acting. I just wish he could act the same in the tonload of other movies he played in.