Collateral

[poliphilo]

This is how I want to see Tom Cruise- not as an all-American hero, but as a weird, empty-hearted sonofabitch. I read somewhere that this is the kind of role he's seeking these days. Well good!

Jaime Fox is sweet. I'm all for an action hero who doesn't know how to use a gun and who steps carefully through a broken window. Yeah, I'm sick- so sick- of men of steel. Lets have heroes who look like us.

I like it how night-time Los Angeles- with its myriad coloured lights- serves as a metaphor for an unfeeling universe. This is the L.A. of Blade Runner- only it's now. We have caught up with the sci-fi visionaries and are living in their cities of the future.

Comments

[hastursdaughter.livejournal.com]

Re: a weird, empty-hearted sonofabitch
This is always how I have envisioned Tom Cruise’s characters. My mind was polluted by the first film I saw him in: ‘Interview with the Vampire’. Now, even when faced with ‘Mission Impossible’, he will always remain the Brat Prince, one better than your bitch – the sonofademon. ‘Jerry Maguire’ only strengthened this, and though I might not agree with it, I’m certain of type-casting – that this is the kind of role he's seeking these days. I’m glad he’s embracing it consciously this time, too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've never believed in Cruise as a conventional leading man. There's a coldness about him. Now that he's outgrown the pretty boy roles I think he's going to show us some amazing things.