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It’s not that Cruise hasn’t had misfires before (and between “Rock of Ages,” “Oblivion,” and “Jack Reacher: Never Stop Never Reaching” they’re happening at a faster rate), but “The Mummy” is the first of his films that doesn’t feel like a Tom Cruise movie. And Cruise, against all odds, has maintained his god-level batting average for much of the three decades that followed he’s only racked up 42 acting credits since 1981, and virtually every single one of them is memorable in its own way.Īll of this is to say that not only is “ The Mummy” the worst movie that Tom Cruise has ever made, it’s also obviously the worst movie that Tom Cruise has ever made - it stands out like a flat note on a grand piano. If “Cocktail” was the worst movie an actor made in the first decade of their career, they were doing alright. Just consider those credits: “Risky Business.” “Top Gun.” “Born on the Fourth of July.” Cruise was a human seal of freshness decades before today’s Hollywood A-listers needed Rotten Tomatoes to validate their work. No, Tom Cruise became a movie star because he possessed something that galvanized all of those individual qualities into something special - a need for quality control. It wasn’t even the fact that the way he runs on screen tells us more about the fundamental nature of cinema than anyone has conveyed with a stride since Eadweard Muybridge trained his camera on a galloping horse. It wasn’t that he was cocky enough to be loved, but also vulnerable enough to be lovable, although that certainly helped. What made Tom Cruise a movie star? It wasn’t his toothy smile or his all-American dimples.