Cruise Does It Again!

Rating: 1/10 (3 July 2005)

Why is Tom Cruise allowed to appear on film? With any other actor playing the lead role this film would merely be poor, but Cruise manages to take an otherwise forgettable story and make it memorably rancid. It's difficult to know where to begin in making a serious critique of this one, so I wont bother. Cruise's teeth are far too white, and I suspect his dramatic pauses are really forgotten lines. I only watched this movie because I picked up the wrong one from the video store by mistake. What a terrible mistake it was. I suppose Tom Cruise does have a definite intensity about him though; intensely angry, intensely sad, intensely confused, etc. Unfortunately it's impossible to tell which is which. He seems to have one universal expression for all of these emotions - a slightly pained stare which could convey anything from "I've just sat on something very sharp" to "Help, I'm having a brain embolism". Maybe I'm being too harsh. After all, he does have a very symmetrical skull and a nice haircut. So I guess it wasn't all bad. I mean it did actually end, so that's something. If you see this one in the bargain bin, push it down to the bottom. Far, far down. Please.