Tom Cruise flipping cocktails as a bartender? Could anything go wrong? A lot, as it turns out, at least according to the audience.
1988 cruise film cocktail Received the worst marks in the published list By metacritic. However, there is one caveat. Audiences flocked to the film when it was first released, perhaps because Cruise had become such a beloved box office star following the film’s success. top GunWhich premiered two years ago. However, its performance since then has not been good.
“A film that earned Tom Cruise a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actor, cocktail It was largely panned by critics, but was a financial success at the box office,” the site notes. “Cruise stars as a New York City bartender who takes his impressive skills to a Jamaican bar and falls in love with an artist (Elisabeth Shue).”
hollywood reporter Too rank cocktail As Cruise’s worst film.
A major site finds Tom Cruise’s movie ‘Cocktail’ unintentionally hilarious
heart I had nothing but good things to say about the cocktail. Hollywood Trade Magazine wrote, “Need an exercise of willpower this week? See how long you can look at Cruise’s inexplicably serious expression on the poster of this movie about ‘temperamental’ bartenders without laughing.”
The film received only 11% positive ranking from critics. But Rotten Tomatoes. “Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) wants a high-paying marketing job, but first he needs a business degree. Working as a bartender to pay for college, Flanagan is apprenticed to his experienced boss, Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown),” that site describes the plot. “Together, their showmanship and charisma command big crowds and tip payments – until a falling out between Flanagan and the eccentric Coughlin. Flanagan moves to Jamaica to raise enough money to open his own bar, where he falls in love with artist Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue). “
according to rotten tomatoesThe critics’ consensus is not kind: “It’s no surprise cocktailA shallow, dramatically inert romance that wastes Tom Cruise’s talents as much as the simple fantasy of a naive barkeep.”
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However, some audiences liked it better than critics, although it still only achieved a 58% positive rating. rotten tomatoes. One person wrote, “A classic 80s film. Amazing music. Powerful acting performances. Gritty and realistic. Full of entertainment but also serious moments when needed.” rotten tomatoes site.
However, another reader wrote, “There’s nothing to admire in this film except Cruise’s spontaneity and even that is limited to that smile and many of his worst acting qualities – fake tantrums that never convince the camera.”
And another fan said, “This movie is all over the place and doesn’t really stick to what it wants to tell the audience and Tom Cruise’s character development is terrible in my opinion. Overall this movie is lacking in a lot of areas.”
Other sites ranked the worst Tom Cruise movies of all time in different ways
Cruise has a long list of movies to choose from, so it’s probably not surprising that other sites picked a different movie for his worst movie ever.
- Collider placedlion for lambs As the worst Cruise film.
- imdb chosesomewhere far away As Cruise’s worst film.
- business insider chose rock of Ages.
- endless Love Was Cruz named worst place holder And Rolling Stone.
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