Tom cruise as a tough guy.....still not believable.....in any movie IMO. Guess I can’t get past the scientology thing.
I agree though....Collateral made me laugh.
He’s more suited,to his mission impossible roles, but yeah even there they overplay his toughness- his character is more geared towards high-tech sneakiness- not tough guy crap. He just doesnt pull tough guy off well
FYI, to his credit, Tom Cruise left scientology.
I like him but it’s obvious the guy’s done steroids to get so buffed up they way a lot of actors and athletes have done over the years.
You can almost always tell about the steroid thing. Their body is too bulgy, their eyes tend to bug out, and becsue they have certain unexplainable weird, often self-destructive, behaviors.
(Corticosteroids reduce GABA, leading to anxiety, changes in mood, depression, seizure disorders, and a decreased capacity to cope with chronic pain. https://journals.lww.com/nursingmadeincrediblyeasy/fulltext/2021/01000/mental_status_changes_with_corticosteroid_therapy.11.aspx#:~:text=Corticosteroids%20reduce%20GABA%2C%20leading%20to,regulates%20memory%20and%20emotional%20processing.)
With Cruise, he just kept going off the deep end to where, for awhile, it seemed nobody would hired him for a role.
So the scientology thing is gone but I don’t how long the steroid side-effects last.