Tom Cruise's Five Best Movies
By Jason McIntyre
Ranking movies is a highly subjective task. It really depends what you value. A key, I believe, is whether or not you can watch the movie over and over if it is replayed on cable. Take a good movie like “The Road.” Incredibly depressing. Can’t watch it over and over on cable. A good movie like “Inception?” Also really difficult to watch over and over because it’s so damn heavy. But movies like “Taken” and “School Ties” and “Karate Kid?” If they’re on, chances are, you’re watching. Here are, in no particular order, the five best movies Tom Cruise has starred in.
Top Gun – It’ll be 2045 and this movie will still be showing on TBS/TNT at least once a month. Did you know Kelly McGillis, who is twice-divorce, now plays for the other team?
Jerry Maguire – No argument here, right?
Minority Report – I didn’t rank these five, but if I had to, Minority Report would be 5th, and it narrowly edged out A Few Good Men (really a great movie, and even though Cruise got top billing, I thought Nicholson, Demi Moore and even Kevin Bacon played equally-significant roles), Rain Man, Collateral, Born on the Fourth of July (great movie, but I can’t watch it over and over, like the others on this list), and I didn’t count his brief cameo in Tropic Thunder, since he was only a bit player.
Cocktail – Quintessential guy’s movie in the 80s – bartending, attractive women (Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Kelly Lynch), and moving to the Caribbean. Great soundtrack. This song makes me want to crack open a Red Stripe and lay in a hammock.