Mission: Impossible set up 8 films and 30 years of Tom Cruise’s mania in 30 perfect minutes

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Usually, the Cruise Jerk would find redemption and true heroism by the end of the movie. Maverick in Top Gun is the cartoon version of this, while Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man is the more nuanced read. In the early days, in more cynically minded pictures, he would sometimes double down on his jerkdom (The […]

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