A review of Tom's acting, and then the rest of the aspects

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2002)

Acting-wise, at least in most of his films (Interview With The Vampire, Vanilla Sky, A Few Good Men, and Magnolia are exceptions) he has just been pretending to act like he's in a school play. Vanilla Sky changed my mind about him, not because of the confusing storyline, but because of his amazing acting ability in that. I guess that was just a fluke considering I have seen nothing, acting-wise, to top that performance (Cruise-wise).
But on to the actual movie. This movie's first hour I imagine was to establish premise and characterization. But it doesn't do a good job at either. But the rest of it was absolutely amazing, and spellbinding, mesmerizing, but because of Cruise's poor acting I wouldn't term it as a masterpiece. Effects, cinematography, directing, screenplay, all should be remembered come Oscar time.
7/10 for the long period of nothingness and Cruise's bad acting.