We’re going to exit on a limb right here with a loopy sizzling take. Tom Cruise has made quite a lot of good films. We all know! Stunning and controversial, however from Prime Gun and Rain Man, to Magnolia, Eyes Vast Shut, A Few Good Males, The Colour of Cash, Jerry Maguire, and many many more, we predict it’s warranted.
Cruise turns 62 at present, which appears virtually as loopy because the above assertion. He definitely doesn’t appear like a close to senior citizen, however perhaps that’s as a result of he’s dabbled in so much science fiction. All through his profession, Cruise has not solely made loads of conventional blockbusters and Oscar fare, however plenty of excessive idea sci-fi too, a lot of that are unbelievable, others of which aren’t.
Beneath, we’ve received our rating of Cruise’s sci-fi/fantasy movies, with a number of surprises alongside the way in which.
8. The Mummy (2017)
Ooo boy. We may write encyclopedias about all the things that went incorrect with The Mummy and have come close already. However one fast instance is that Cruise’s tackle the Common Monsters franchise was to make the film about himself and never the titular character. A darkish universe, certainly.
7. Legend (1985)
Actually, The Mummy is the one dangerous Tom Cruise sci-fi film. Legend is definitely fairly good, simply perhaps rather less so than the movies above it. Ridley Scott directs the sweeping fantasy finest identified for Tim Curry’s unforgettable character, Darkness.
6. Vanilla Sky (2001)
Cameron Crowe’s remake of the Spanish movie Open Your Eyes is a creepy, bizarre, massively underrated story of a person who experiences unimaginable loss, and tries to abuse and make the most of science and drugs for his personal private acquire. Not a straightforward film to look at or digest, however a memorable one nonetheless. A type of films solely Tom Cruise may do.
5. Oblivion (2013)
I actually sort of love Oblivion. Certain, it’s just a remix of every sci-fi idea made common within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties, nevertheless it’s sprawling, it’s stunning, and doesn’t actually get the eye it deserves.
4. Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Cruise stars alongside Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst on this early adaptation of the Anne Rice novel, which has seen some new lifetime of late due to the AMC show. This model, written by Rice herself, is extra devoted to the unique textual content than that present, however no much less gothic and interesting.
3. Warfare of the Worlds (2005)
Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg teamed up for this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel a few father defending his kids throughout an alien invasion. It’s huge and daring in all of the methods one would anticipate from Spielberg, however perhaps simply falls a bit brief due to the director’s different movies, and the pair’s earlier collaboration.
2. Minority Report (2002)
If Minority Report didn’t exist, Warfare of the Worlds can be only a tad extra particular. Nevertheless it does exist and it’s nice. It’s Cruise and Spielberg collectively eventually giving us an outstanding, thrilling sci-fi journey a few man who stops crimes earlier than they occur, after which finds himself the thing of a chase. We wrote a ton more about it here.
1.5 Trapped within the Closet
Although he’s not explicitly in, or part of, this iconic episode of South Park, we thought it was no less than value mentioning earlier than attending to primary…
1. Fringe of Tomorrow (2014)
Fringe of Tomorrow isn’t simply Tom Cruise’s finest sci-fi film, it might be one in every of his finest films, interval. Director Doug Liman, from a script co-written by Christopher McQuarrie, creates an electric, intense, roller coaster ride of time travel and alien invasion. Cruise shines together with co-star Emily Blunt and we’re nonetheless holding out hope {that a} sequel occurs.
Honorable Point out: The Mission Unimaginable films
The Mission: Unimaginable films aren’t sci-fi in fact, however they’re what we at io9 likes to name “spy-fi.” It’s a really particular cross-section of plausible motion with fictionalized expertise that we love and canopy on the positioning however, for functions of this listing, have chosen to disregard. However the MI films are nice and, well…6-1-4-3-5-7-2.
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