Re: 'All You Need Is Kill' - Tom Cruise/Doug Liman
Tom Cruise wants to get back to his blockbuster status of yesteryear and is focused on sci-fi (Oblivion, AYNiK) and action adventure (Jack Reacher, MI) to do so. However it seems that having his name above the title, even for the popcorn flicks, often does more harm that good. Cruise is actually a very good actor IMO--check out Born on the Fourth of July or Vanilla Sky which is one of my top 20. I'm getting a little tired of seeing him doing yet another riff on the same character he's been playing for years. I think if he took on more meaty roles he'd get more respect from his peers and moviegoers. He was very well received as Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder, but since then everything else has been yet another vanity role. I have heard mixed to positive reviews on Jack Reacher, with people having a hard time accepting 5'7" Tom Cruise as someone described in the books as being 6'5".
I didn't see the movie myself, but I do remember seeing this clip of Cruise/Reacher putting the smackdown on 5 guys.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcbximLcoyo[/ame]
Which is all cool until you compare it to this scene from Blood and Bone
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J29Ymd-COSQ[/ame]