re: Tom Cruise best role.

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His best role is Collateral without a doubt.

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Don't buy that; it's one-note.

And Jerry Maguire is actually one-note to a degree but he shows some range so it's one of his better performances and probably Top 5..., but Collateral is just no range...not far from Cocktail. It's far better than Cocktail - his worst, next to that stupid Sci-Fi movie where there was almost no acting involved. Rinse-Repeat? Whatever it was. It was just dodging bullets from Machines.

Magnolia is up there because it's not just Cruise being Mission Impossible stunt guy.

But what does best role mean?

I wasn't kidding about Risky Business. First off...the subject line said "best role" - that's his best role because it made his career...and his acting in that is REAL. Not, I'm Tom Cruise action star...

But I'm just a guy.

Everyone can say Born on the 4th of July but that's not a big hit nowadays.

But Risky Business was his best role because it made his career, he wasn't Tom Cruise yet so he was natural, and is still to this day probably his most iconic movie apart from Top Gun.



It's not the best movie he's made, but sometimes you have to say what the frick!