Does Mission: Impossible Define Tom Cruise’s Whole Career

05/28/2025

I’ve been deep-diving into Tom Cruise’s filmography, and honestly? Dude’s the ultimate blockbuster king. He’s never really chased Oscars—just pure adrenaline and box office wins.
Mission: Impossible’s iconic, sure. It’s got its own lane in Hollywood history, but compared to 007? Doesn’t hit the same. So, where do we rank MI as a franchise? And how do we even label Cruise’s legacy? Hot takes welcome.

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Ishika

· 05/29/2025

I think he started his career with really big arthouse films by the best directors in the business, but he gained more fame and had more fun with blockbuster movies. Plus, his weird Scientology stuff probably influenced him to keep doing them. I'm sure that if he had stuck with arthouse films today, Brad Pitt and Leo wouldn't stand a chance. The roles kind of reversed with those actors.

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Monte Solaris

· 05/28/2025

Quality > quantity. Y’all forgetting Jerry Maguire, Rain Man, and Eyes Wide Shut? He’s one of the few who turns blockbusters into classics—Vanilla Sky and The Last Samurai aren’t Oscar bait, but they’re lowkey iconic.

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Lucas.

· 05/29/2025

I like his other movies better

Gwen Pemberton

· 05/29/2025

I think it definitely defines him now. I really liked the choices he was making up until the 2000s, but by this point it's hard to remember him as anything other than Ethan Hunt. Recency bias may prove me wrong though

Timothy Knight

· 05/28/2025

Bro pulled off 8 MI movies. That’s wild. Fight me, but MI aged way better than Harry Potter.

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Matthew Alan Schmidt

· 05/30/2025

To me, Tom will always be defined by Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder, and that whole "jumping up and down on Oprah's couch" thing.

Nexus Striker

· 05/28/2025

Facts. After Collateral (2004), he stopped trying for “serious actor” cred. Still GOATed though.

JORGE LUIS SALVATIERRA CARRETERO

· 2 days ago

Tom Cruise es un execelente actor recomendado por muchos fans y sus películas siempre generan una excelente trama.
Pero sin duda la franquicia de misión imposible ha destacado en su carrera por ser las películas con mayor renombre en sus carrera

Colecciona emociones con Charlie

· 06/09/2025

Tom Cruise in the final installment was like: "I'm too old to be in any part of this, but I have to clean your mess". To be honest, I would rather watch a story about his retired life, and one day he met a young ambitious man so he try to train the young man to be a new agent.

@TwoDogs

· 06/08/2025

I think he kinda always wanted his own franchise and he made it happen with the MI films. For me, his defining roles are his earlier ones in Top Gun and Born of The Fourth of July. But my personal favourite is still his character of T.J Mackey in the film 'Magnolia'.

cinejanie

· 06/06/2025

I don’t mean to throw shade at Tom Cruise, but for some reason your question reminded me that DiCaprio once seemed to advise younger actors in Hollywood not to do franchise films? I forgot his exact words. But the point, I think, was that it could really limit your range as an actor.

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