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I never have had a distaste for Tom Cruise but I never felt his movies were PHENOMENAL either. He is an entertaining actor but I never would add him to a list of my favourite actors.
That being said, he has definitely grown as an actor since he started out.
His 80s era films were quite fun. Risky Business, Legend, Top Gun, The Color of Money, and Cocktail were all very entertaining. But they were not much more then that.
That being said Rain Man, which is stolen from Tom by Dustin Hoffman, is probably the first real film where we start to see some range. However, with Dustin taking the reigns, that was lost for at least a few more years on Tom.
An argument can be said for Born On the Fourth of July, but I could never really get into that film. His next really good film was A Few Good Men, followed later by Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, and currently The Last Samurai.
With those movies. I think one can really look at Tom and see how he has progressed over the year and developed into far better an actor anyone would have thought from Taps.
Having seen The Last Samurai yesterday, I gotta say it is one HELL of a movie, and I think it is Tom Cruise's best "job" to date. I really hope he becomes more selective in his work and does more GREAT films, and not a Days of Thunder 2.
I look forward to what he has yet to bring to the table.
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