Casting comments

Rating: 9/10 (9 August 2005)

To anyone who says that Cruise was miscast in this role, I strongly disagree. It was his stereotypical and flashy good looks that made this role so right for him. It strengthens the story of a man who has a perfect life taken away from him. To see Cruise vulnerable and broken was refreshing, and i believe he portrayed this character very well.
...But to offer a different role that was miscast, Sophia. I don't see much beauty and attraction in Penelope Cruz, and at the risk of sounding shallow, if you are going to make a story about a man who is driven by infatuation of a women to , ultimately, his death..make the chick hot...some may disagree with that but that's how i saw it.