Despite receiving many scorns about both his appearance and acting ability, this actor still proves his class by continuously having hit blockbuster projects.
Tom Cruise has just returned to sweep the world box office with Mission: Impossible 7 (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One) . The film invested about 290 million USD in production costs, and is expected to need to earn about 800 million USD to break even. This is an investment that not many people dare to spend in a context where the world box office is not too bustling. However, experts predict the film will likely surpass the $1 billion revenue mark.
Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 7.
I thought my time was running out, but the time had just come
The age of 61 for acting is often considered a steep slope in many people’s careers. In particular, action stars in Hollywood often find it difficult to maintain their form at the box office. Films of this genre require physical strength and dedication to play fight and chase scenes. Although special effects technology and the abilities of stunt teams are increasingly improving, the main actors still have to take on the majority of action scenes if they want to create an attractive movie. Many once-famous stars such as Bruce Willis and Jean-Claude Van Damme have now turned their careers on a downward slope because their health does not allow them.
However, Tom Cruise is proving the opposite that this is the new pinnacle of his more than 40 years of acting. Last year, when the world box office was still reeling due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, he returned with the blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick . The work grossed 1.49 billion USD globally and won an Oscar. The film was also selected to premiere at the opening ceremony of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France.
Tom Cruise is the world’s highest-earning actor in 2022 thanks to Top Gun: Maverick.
The success of Top Gun: Maverick helped Tom Cruise become the world’s highest-earning actor last year, with an income of more than 100 million USD. In particular, he received an upfront salary of only about 12.5 million USD and the rest came from profit percentage terms. This is the dream income of all the world’s top stars. Robert Downey Jr. At its peak, it only earned about 75 million USD for Avengers: Endgame alone when this work broke Avatar ‘s all-time box office record , according to data from Forbes.
Similarly, with the positive effects from Mission Impossible 7 being obtained, this year’s Hollywood summer movie season is unlikely to slip out of the hands of the 61-year-old actor. The work currently receives a 99% “fresh” score on Rotten Tomatoes from a total of 163 reviews from critics. In total, only two writers from NME and Times UK criticized the film. This is also the highest score of the Mission Impossible movie franchise after nearly 3 decades of existence.
Noisy private life does not cause career woes
During Hollywood’s “awakening” era, when feminism and race were frequently mentioned, Tom Cruise was one of the rare white “alpha male” stars who stood firm. In addition to his successful career, the actor’s name is also associated with a series of noisy personal lives. With his handsome appearance and style, he is likened to the nightmare of many Hollywood stars because of his somewhat eccentric lifestyle. His love affairs often have bad endings.
Tom Cruise’s three marriages.
Young Tom Cruise.
Tom Cruise’s first wife was actress Mimi Rogers – who is also said to have introduced him to Scientology. The marriage only lasted about 3 years because the actor suddenly intended to become a monk and did not want to be close to his wife. After that, he dated and married Nicole Kidman after meeting them on the set of Days of Thunder . The two became Hollywood’s most sought-after star couple in the 1990s. However, the marriage also ended in noise because Kidman could not stand her husband’s extreme lifestyle according to her husband’s sect rules.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Nicole planned to take Tom away from the cult since 1992, go abroad with him to film and avoid contact with other believers. In 1997, the couple spent 15 months in London (UK) filming the Eye Wide Shut project directed by Stanley Kubrick. However, when returning to America, Tom Cruise still decided to stick with this religion and divorced his wife.
Spanish “love spell” Penelope Cruz is the next victim on the list of Tom Cruise’s ghosts. The two were passionately together for 3 years. They were engaged but had to end it because Scientology required the actor not to marry someone who does not follow the sect.
The third marriage is the thing that has the biggest impact on Tom Cruise’s reputation. He and actress Katie Holmes got married in 2006. The two have a daughter, Suri, now 17 years old. However, since their divorce in 2012, Tom Cruise has hardly seen mother and son. Some sources in Hollywood claim that the actor was forced to do so because of the sect’s harsh rules. Many people criticize Tom Cruise for his extreme lifestyle and neglecting his family for many years. However, all that noise in his private life was not enough to destroy his illustrious career.
Tom Cruise has not seen his daughter again for many years since divorcing his wife.
“Dwarf” Tom Cruise, only knows how to run in movies?
In Hollywood, few stars have maintained their A-list status as consistently as Tom Cruise. However, unlike many of his contemporaries such as Brad Pitt and George Clooney, his appearance and acting ability were often laughed at by the audience for many years. Possessing one of the most beautiful faces in the world, the actor is only 1m7 tall, very modest compared to the standards of American actors. Nicole Kidman – Tom’s ex-wife – once joked that she could not wear high heels during the time they were together.
Along with that, there was a period when people often made fun of Tom Cruise’s acting ability. In the mid-2010s, he released two works that were considered disasters, The Mummy and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back . Many people think that the 1m7 actor’s career is starting to decline. However, he quickly regained the love of fans with quality projects like American Made or Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
Tom Cruise’s acting ability has been a controversial topic for many years. During his youth, he was famous as a top action star with works such as Top Gun and Mission Impossible. Many people believe that the secret to Tom Cruise’s success comes from his beautiful face and his ability to perform difficult scenes without much stunt work.
On the contrary, he is not overrated for his ability to develop characters and express complex emotions. For many years, his roles were continuously criticized. Many people joke that Tom Cruise’s only acting action in most movies is running. On his Instagram page, the actor also responded to this ridicule when writing in his self-introduction: “Actor. Producer. Specialized in playing running scenes in movies since 1981.
However, besides being a top action star, Tom Cruise was also one of Hollywood’s top actors. In the 1990s, he collaborated with many top directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese or Paul Thomas Anderson. He also received 3 Oscar nominations in acting categories during this period.
The fact that Tom Cruise did not take the trouble to develop his dramatic acting ability was simply because he wanted to devote his life to the action genre. It can be seen that his way of expressing emotions on screen for nearly 40 years has not changed much, and has even gotten worse over time. However, the level of recklessness and creativity in action scenes is steadily increasing over time. People still joke that every Tom Cruise movie is a time the actor plays with death.
In the face of Hollywood’s constant changes, Tom Cruise is still at the top of the game. It can be said that, at the age of 61, he is still the leading flag in breaking the limits of the action genre, bringing unique footage in a time when world cinema is overusing special effects. with the result being scenes that are artificial and lacking in emotion.
