brain dead hell

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2016)

I won't repeat the many excellent points that other reviewers of this film have made, mostly in the extreme negative. I've just watched it on the TV and came reeling to IMDb to see what I was missing? Nothing, apparently. It's just awful. I thought the remark by one of the metacritic reviewers that maybe the film was a deliberate parody of all Cruise's other roles was interesting and plausible. Why would anyone want to do that? Did the Scientologists pay for this rubbish? Of the many films people have referenced in their reviews, from 2001 ASO to The Matrix, via Top Gun and Planet Of The Apes, no one seems to have spotted the homage to The English Patient in which the pilot of a crashed plane leaves his wounded female passenger in a cave promising to return for her. But unlike TEP, Tom does actually bother to come back. If you want to see a film about the poignancy of enforced memory loss, watch Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and give this trash a wide berth.