Yeah The only thing different about Cruise was that he allowed to look his age and to die at the end.
Fighting a religious war is like fighting over whose imaginary friend is better.

Im guessing you guys have never seen collateral?

She simply has the same problem Rachael Taylor, for instance, has - she can't act when she has to force an American accent. Taylor's boringly the same in all the American shows, but I recently saw Red Dog and found her great. Same can be said for Pike.
Fighting a religious war is like fighting over whose imaginary friend is better.

He's got two looks, his "grinning like an idiot" look and his "thinking" look,
Still better than his female costar.
She has a single look. That of a deer in headlights.
I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water!

Wayne changed a lot over the years and what he cr&pped was not only bigger than Cruise, but a way better actor than Cruise.
And, Wayne wasn't even that great. Cruise just really sucks.
He's got two looks, his "grinning like an idiot" look and his "thinking" look, where he looks like Joey from Friends smelling his own fart.

The same can be said of John Wayne. Wayne plays Wayne in nearly every one of his films.
Just because an actor does not have a diverse range of acting does not mean he isn't a great actor within his scope.
Cruise is a complete ass and a cultish idiot in his private life, but he is a damned good actor.
I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water!

Genius you are funny. Haven't watched many cruise movies with that opinion

I'm fan of the books. I liked this movie, but when Emerson says he looks for someone who can kill with one punch, motel lady directs him to check Reacher (dont remember his alias) and says "you'll see" or something like that.

my bad, I misread. Anyway agree to disagree on Jack Reacher. Size aside I think Cruise nailed it.

I can say that Cruise acted different in this than MI. He gave a more subtle,restrained, more nuanced performance in Jack Reacher.
Yeah, not so much. The only real difference was they didn't have more than one big action sequence for Tom.
He does not act the same in every movie.
That isn't what I said.
Tom Cruise plays Tom Cruise in every
action movie
he is in.

I can say that Cruise acted different in this than MI. He gave a more subtle,restrained, more nuanced performance in Jack Reacher. He does not act the same in every movie. Watch Rain Man, Born on the forth of july, magnolia, eyes wide shut, the last samurai, interview with a vampire, tropic thunder, rock of ages. Different in all those movies.

And I wonder whose idea it was for all the women he came into contact with swooned over him? Remember Pike was nearly putty in his hands at the motel

That's how Jack Reacher acts in the books. Very cocky. Tom Cruise nailed it. Dolph Lundgren has the look more but glad he wasn't cast.
Clint back in the day would have been perfect.

Haha! Yeah, he definitely needed to put his shirt back on. Cruise has never has much of an upper body, and his fifty plus years were showing!

Totally agree.
Couldn't stop laughing to myself. "Put your shirt on!What was I saying?" PAHleeze!
And she's a lawyer, but she has to constantly ask him "What should we do next?"
2 women (besides most of the initial murder victims, of course, because where would an action flic be without dead women as victims?) with speaking parts and one is a clueless lawyer and the other a slutty gamine. Meanwhile, Cruise struts around like a banter rooster, always the smartest one in the room, forced to suffer fools who would be lost without him. With the emotional range of an eggplant, he only just keeps a lid on his arrogant smirk. I wonder when the last time was he found himself surrounded by people NOT paid to feign worship?

That's the problem, they didn't get a "quality actor." They got Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise plays Tom Cruise in every action movie he is in.
Can you really watch this movie and say he wasn't that much different in it than he was in the MI movies? Knight and Day? Minority report?
Heck, in most of his movies he's jut playing Tom Cruise.