Tom Cruise was NOT Lestat

Rating: 5/10 (7 December 2007)

Once again, the money people in Hollywood had their heads up their behinds and completely RUINED this story by casting Cruise as Lestat. Lestate was tall, gaunt, blond, regal. Everything Cruise is not and would never be. He WAS AWFUL as Lestat. Julian Sands would have been the perfect choice for Lestat, and would have truly brought the character to life, or unlife, as it were. Pitt wasn't a much better choice as Louis either. I know this is an old movie, but as a huge fan of the novel, it is just a shame when I read that Tom Cruise did such a good job as Lestat. He was a mistake. A HUGE mistake. The ONLY casting decision in that movie that was a good choice was Antonio Banderas. He gave the most credible performance, the only one able to capture the sensuality and creepiness that Rice imbued in her vampires.
Cruise has a limited emotional range at best and absolutely no understanding of understatement or sensuality, a quality this role demanded. Such a shame. A potentially great movie ruined irreparably by bad casting. It was like casting Toby Maguire as Patton.