Salute To Tom Cruise

Early in this blog's life I talked about the terrible fear of Tom Cruise: dying.

For too long Tom Cruise has failed to face his fears and take a script that has him dying on screen. For too long he has placed himself in roles where one thing was certain: At the end of the day, he would be alive.

Tom Cruise has faced his fears. The rest of the movie may be junk. The story pathetic. The action somewhat mundane. The acting. . . .well, with Tom Cruise. But by golly, Tom Cruise finally took the onscreen bullet.

No, his death scene was not the best in the history of cinema. No Gene Hackman twitching on the street or James Cagney on top of the world, but it was significant nonetheless. It gave us all hope that one day, we may permanently have a world without Tom Cruise.