What Were They Thinking With This one!

Rating: 1/10 (25 June 2004)

What went awry? Tom Cruise makes his usual bad choice of projects and flails around the screen like a high school Hamlet on speed. Cameron Crowe is the perfect director for Cruise - they come from the same Hack school of little-kid acting and sentimental-empty directing. I can't believe that Cameron Diaz impressed some people with this performance. She never could act and used to be amusingly cute, but that's over for her. She'll gladly muck up the screen in big-budget trash like Cruise has, although he was good in Magnolia and Rain Man.
Who enjoys this kind of tripe? No wonder American films are taking another nose-dive like the entire decade of the 80's. Is there any hope?