Last updated on 2012-07-04, by Tony

5 Impressive Images in Tom Cruise Movies

As one of the most famous movie stars in the world, Tom Cruise gains his reputations with his excellent performance instead of his handsome face. Though today is the 50th birthday of Tom Cruise, he probably has no intention to celebrate it because of his divorce case with Katie Holmes.

Tom and Holmes not only end their six-year marriage but also are busy fighting for the custody of their daughter, who has joined in Scientology religion like her father. At least by now, Scientology is described as a weird and even evil religion. Therefore, maybe this time Tom Cruise will spend the toughest birthday ever in his life.

Anyway, without his excellent performance in Tom Cruise movies, Tom couldn’t have gained so much attention with his private life. Actually, Tom Cruise movies can always earn good reputations and excellent box office revenues. Moreover, Tom has impressed us with various roles in his movies. Therefore, this post will present you five impressive images in Tom Cruise movies.

1. Almighty Agent in Mission Impossible series

Mission Impossible series is probably the most successful Tom Cruise movies. The box office income of the four movies had reached to over two billion dollars. Mission Impossible series had also helped Tom Cruise to become an almighty agent that could always manage various impossible missions.

In Mission Impossible, Tom Cruise needs to find out the real spy to prove his innocence. In Mission Impossible 2, Tom needs to steal the deadly virus which can be used as a devastating weapon. In Mission Impossible 3, Ethan is required to rescue his student. In Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Ethan gets little time to prevent the war between America and Russia.

2. Don Juan in Vanilla Sky

With a handsome face and charming smile, Tom Cruise gets the role as David Aames in Vanilla Sky. David is a wealthy libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. However, an accident has ruined his face and David has to live with a mask. Finally, he finds his true love but it is too late. Without a handsome face, he can’t even get his true love.

3. Evil vampire in Interview with the Vampire

Interview with the Vampire is a movie made based on a famous novel. It was said that when the author knew Tom Cruise would act as Lestat, she was quite disappointed. However, after she had watched the movie, she highly praised the performance of Tom Cruise in the movie.

In Interview with the Vampire, Lestat is a vampire who has a strong lust for blood. He not only seduces Louis to enjoy the blood, but also kills people whenever he wants to. Consequently, even Louis can’t tolerate his cruelty and betrays him.

4. Full-time killer in Collateral

In Collateral, Tom acts as a full-time killer named Vincent who takes taxi drivers as hostages to assist him and then kills them all. Just as Vincent believes, modern people are cold enough to ignore those who have died a strange death. Vincent is so intelligent that he has a plan on his assassination and carries out the plan step by step. As for the performance of Tom, it is impressive.

5. Greedy businessman in Rain Man

Rain Man is actually a movie on family relationship. Tom acts as Charlie who is a greedy car seller who focuses too much on money. As he knows his father’s money goes to his brother who is an autistic savant. He decides to take care of him in order to gain the right to use the money. However, as he gets along with his brother, he changes his outlook.

Though Dustin Hoffman steals all the thunder in Rain Man, the character Charlie is actually a more challenging role. Luckily, Tom Cruise vividly displayed us the subtle changes in the character with his excellent performance.

Those are the most impressive five images in Tom Cruise movies. The DVDs of those movies are available in the market. For people who want to watch those movies with portable devices like Lumia 900, they can enjoy the DVDs on Lumia 900 with DVD Ripper.