Tom Cruise. What images get conjured up? Jets, leather jackets, and aviator glasses? High and tight hair in a stark white uniform? Long and shaggy hair while climbing mirrored skyscrapers? High-speed car chases, shootouts, and fight scenes? How about filmy, billowing white curtains with Kelly McGillis? Any way you look at it, it’s gonna be good and only gets better with time. Hello, did you see “Knight and Day” and “Jack Reacher?” Bad-fargin-A.
Though seemingly similar, most of his roles were either Adventurer or Rogue archetypes. So what’s the big diff?