Cruise Is Fun, but Downey Jr Steals Every Scene

Rating: 8/10 (29 October 2017)

Continuing my plan to watch every Tom Cruise movie in order, I contact Tropic Thunder (2008)
Plot In A Paragraph: Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
The spoof trailers and ads which take up the first 10 mins set the tone for what is to follow, its crude, low brow humour, but I for one find it a very movie. An Oscar nominated Robert Downey Jr steals every scene he is in!! He is brilliant as method actor Kirk Lazarus, an actor so commuted he does not come out of character until he has done the DVD commentary, and thinks nothing of having skin augmentation for a role!! Ben Stiller (allegedly loosely basing his character on Sly Stallone) is fun, normally I find most of his characters the same, but I like him here. Jack Black is perfectly cast and gets some great one liners.
Then on to Tom Cruise, who after a very public kicking from all quarters, he reminds everyone why they like him, with an over the top, energetic and totally off the wall performance that was rightly nominated for a Golden Globe (his last nomination to date) I'm still waiting for the Les Grossman solo movie.
Tropic Thunder grossed $110 million at the domestic box office to end 2008 the 25th highest grossing movie of the year.