What Makes Tom Cruise's Vincent One Of The Most Terrifying Villains In Film History 

I imagine Tom Cruise with this kind of character in his cult,lol

Lets not forgot Tropic Thunder

He's easy to like in person but easier to dislike on screen

@@gonzo7727 are you being sarcastic....? Scientologist tom cruise, a good person...? His characters he primarily plays are directly contrary to your statement ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Tropic Thunder too. Tom Cruise knows what he's doing.

It was nominated for two Oscars and won over 20 awards. It's 86%/84% on RT and made over $200m in 2004.

@@pancakemogul But it's not talked about much now tho right?

@@pancakemogul yeah but whenever we talk about Michael Mann movies Collateral is never brought up in the discussion, it is always Heat and it's not even brought up when we talk about Tom Cruise's best performances. It feels like many have forgotten about this movie throughout the years and only a select few still remember it and appreciate it.

Came to say the exact same thing.

@@HishamA.N_Comicbroe Umm, I...guess not? For a 2004 movie, it's less popular than Kill Bill 2, Anchorman and Shawn of the Dead, sure, but I'm guessing above or on par with big ones like Troy, Ray and Million Dollar Baby these days. Even if most people just mention how TC's hip shot is used in tactical handgun training.

It’s never been underrated

It’s a simple story on the first degree of lecture. Otherwise I love how some people made me saw storytelling where I didn’t. At first I thought it was a movie about masculinity. How does it look like when unleashed and repressed masculinity collides and how at the end it converge in Max to convey a much equilibrated vision of it. But other saw in it a movie about nihilism, a movie about the void left when love is absent. At the end of the day it could be all of these things but one thing is sure is that it’s a dense movie rather than a simple story

You know something wrong when everybody know about Heat but not Collateral

Its his best work, jamie fox too

This and Born on the 4th July.

yeah, its awesome how he ends up as he random dead guy on the train no one will notice is dead for another 12 hours.

@@wotever99ninynine given he is all bloody and the cops will be looking for him, I think he will be found

@@cancerino666 fair

I always hoped we'd see Vincent jumping off the train in the final shot, tricking Max and getting away, much like Chris Shiherlis in Michael Mann's other film Heat. I legit wanted confirmation that he survived solely because he was so frightening to watch. I just wanted more.

If his death was overly theatrical, it would be totally out of character. His death scene was perfect and perfectly incorporates his foreshadowing first ride discussions with Max. Vincent was a matter-of-fact kind of guy, he ran the numbers after he got mortally clipped by Max and knew he was done for. He quietly accepts his death, with his last MESSAGE still trying to one up Max and prove him wrong xD Vincent's checkout was one you would expect from a stoic nihilist, whose one satisfaction and indulgence in life was being good at what he does. The op suggests Vincent was evil - i would disagree and say he was just maladjusted. Some tweaking and he would be a modern day CEO lol Either way, brilliant acting turn by Cruise. Given his clear talent at harnessing & portraying the darker sides of humanity, it's remarkable he doesn't take more roles as interesting, ambiguous characters. He's been playing the cookie-cutter buttermilk good-guy characters for 4 decades - doesnt he get bored of that? lol

Like a terminator

He wasn't sadistic.

@@lucysnorebush964 Yeah he really wasn't. Not the right choice of word for his character.

@kieran finney Lunatic.

@kieran finney interestinggggg

Awesome analysis!

Mind blowing analysis

I've seen this movie at least 20 times. So much I overlooked! Great observations!

perfect analysis

Brilliant!

There's a great line from Vincent about how Max is letting the price of a down payment on a Lincoln Town Car stand between him and his dreams.

I know what you mean but I would say no he's not - he's simply being a psychopath. Max is simply real and wise and brave enough to find the stones to save his own life. The honest confrontation with evil is what generates the transformation. If evil is done specifically to raise consciousness its not really evil. Psychopaths often intellectually grasp much of this and they often like to sell themselves as the true visionaries doing the real good, unlike the weak do-gooders.

Vincent seems similar to Tyler Durden

​@@rumination2399To be fair, sometimes some psychopaths are necessary evils and must change the staus quo in order for society to grow. Also being good isn't enough, one must have conviction to survive nowadays.

I swear to god

​@@picolascage5270lol thanks

You should watch his performance in Magnolia. Long movie but well worth it

Vincent reminded me of the Ice Man, a mafia free contract hit man. There are a couple interviews, and a book on him. There was one killing in particular that reminded me of Vincent. Dude had to kill someone relatively close to the Ice Man personally. Dude fucked up, got a call to be killed, he shows up Dude knows why IM is there. Starts praying, Ice Man straight up stops. Tells him, "God's got an hour to save you, get to praying. If God comes down within an hour and preforms a miracle to get you outa here I'll never hunt you down." When asked what happened by the interviewer, IM responded with, "God didn't show up that day."

@@CSestp He looks more like a living corpse. He is already dead and realizes that his life alone has come to an end. He even has such an image - Pale like a corpse. There is a feeling that after a certain number of tasks he would shoot himself even if he survived at the end of the film.

@@CSestp that is an incredible line, right up there with many great cinematic moments. The fact that it was actually uttered in reality just gives it so much more weight! I'd watch the crap out of a movie adaptation of that interview/hit.

@@giin97 I think there was a movie not long ago but I felt that the interviews were way more... chilling.

Yeah jamie foxx is a B grade actor. I don't find him 100% believable in his roles.

The usual affirmative action?

It’s because Jamie Foxx’s performance was more surprisingly great, Tom Cruise has been pretty consistently good at acting so it didn’t stand out as much to the critics.

Cruise always put on great performances, regardless of the quality of the movie.

Jamie Foxx isn't even a good actor lol C level at best

Sounds like how Katie described him.

Wish he'd play a villain role for just one more film. I gotta see more it.

Evil? nah

No because Anton chigurh didn’t get a reward for his role which is levels above Tom cruise

@@zakariamore1575 ...he did

@@zakariamore1575 Levels above? No, they were both equally great. Anton is scarier in a way, sure. But Vincent is realistic and Collateral could really happen. Both did amazing and (no pun intended!) killed their respective roles. With Tom Cruise, you expect that. With Javier Bardem, he is not as well known as Cruise of course, but no one could have portrayed Anton like he did!

Another idiot using the word underrated because everyone else uses it without knowing what the fuck it means...

Chigurh is scary to you normies as an opportunist Vincent is scary to us all as a super achiever

That moment alone made me fall in love with the character

Best part in my opinion. I've watched over and over!

@@stoveboltlvr3798 Literally hundreds of times

Great scene.

Because he was never a victim any more than a tiger is a victim when it's approaching a couple of goats.

Spot on... gunshots are Loud!! They sound so muffled and harmless in most movies!

....1 of the best??? It's literally the gold standard.

Heat is what gunfire is all about. That scene is the Michael Jordan of shootouts.

Don't forget about The Last of the Mohicans. Every cannon and musket fire sends chills down your spine. And it's also historically accurate because it has that loud "click" that's heard before a black powder musket shoots.

@@jonathanwelke Heat and Aliens "Let's rock!"

got me too then,.. shivers

It seems you haven´t seen enough movies...

​@@MrCarpen7erno. It's just that good of a scene.

I agree, it was on TV one day so I tried it, wow.

that was a coyote not a wolf

Fox was OK. Cruise made him look greater than he was. Cruise was brilliant and owned the screen.

what critics

@@user-of7cx4sc8p Rotten tomatoes

@@user-of7cx4sc8p Rotten tomatoes

@@user-of7cx4sc8p Rotten tomatoes

Yes! Road to Perdition, wowza love Hanks as well. Cruise's *BEST* role here.

Training Day is easily top 3 movies for me. Denzel and Ethan were fantastic.

@@rash9488 I agree. It has a special place in my heart because I grew up in those locations.

_What Lies Beneath_ succeeded in keeping you wondering until the end almost entirely because of the assumption that Harrison Ford is always the good guy.

Cruise is better in Collateral than Denzel in Training Day, everyday and twice on Sunday.

@@lisadee7150 Funny thing is Jamie Fox is dating his ex-wife Katie Holmes.

I completely agree. Tom's best performance ever

No, its just Tom Hanks Fanboys try to convince Thereself this lil boy is an Action hero actor

@@carhawara3394 😂😂😂😂

@@carhawara3394 *Their-selves* and what now?

Narcs will fuck w you til their dying breath. You're showing empathy for someone who didn't have any. It'd be like petting that coyote walking the street

@@penny8579 i didn't care.. and so tom's character was right.. we act so righteous but in the end... woudl you notice the dead body on the train? apathy. kinda the movie shows.. its just another collateral damage.. you get use to it.. you become apathetic. cruise was right.

Pretty cool how it went full circle ⭕️

Doubt he was lonely in the sense of an inability to have people around him who want to be around him as he demonstrated an ability to charm people at will.

Good point!!

AGREE so much Vincent is more than Villain. It is Also Visual Representation of Ideology and Philosophy

Excellent take.

I mean, purely from a "realistic" point of view, Vincent is definitely a psychopath. It's a common psychopathic behavior to exhibit attachment and affection, to create emotional bonds with people. But this is an exploitation technique. As with the jazz player character, those bonds don't actually equate to real emotional attachment the way they do with normal people. Vincent's MO was to build the bond with his driver to learn their vulnerabilities, and keep him off kilter until Vincent got what he needed. Max was never going to survive the night, no matter how much Vincent suggested he cared. He probably said similar stuff to the last cabbie, before killing him at the end of the night, because after all, the cabbie saw his face. It was nothing personal, he'd say. All that encouragement was to create the illusion that the cabbie would survive, so he wouldn't try to run, or make Vincent's job harder. He may have even meant what he said in the moment. But psychopaths always seem to mean what they say. That's why they can beat lie detector tests. Max was a convenient canvas on which Vincent could project his own ideas of human failing. He never actually saw another human being there, because psychopaths are incapable of seeing other human beings. Beyond the layer of realism, I think another layer of the film is the conflict between Max's self-delusion and Vincent's opposing self-delusion. Vincent was able to open Max's mind by disillusioning him about his emotional paralysis, forcing him to turn "someday" into "now." Max was never going to have a do or die moment on his own. We sometimes need a crisis to shake us out of apathy. But I think the reason that Max got the better of Vincent was because Vincent was incapable of changing his world-view, and so he couldn't see how he'd changed Max's. It never occurred to him that an actual person was listening to his rhetoric, and was capable of being changed by it, because he only saw people as these machines going through their programming, incapable of transcending who they were. Because he wasn't capable of that. On the realism layer, he wasn't capable because he was a psychopath. On the meaning layer, it was because the very philosophy he lived by was a locked room with no way out. While Max's philosophy allowed room for an update. In short, Vincent's rigid pragmatism led to resignation, while Max's foolish romanticism allowed room for hope.

I'd argue that he is a textbook psychopath, like clinically speaking he's batting 1.000 to be diagnosed as suffering from psychopathy. Perhaps you mean it in more of a colloquial sense like he isn't insane and isn't in full possession of his faculties, then that I would agree with.

@@cthomas025 there's no such thing as a textbook definition of a psychopath. it's not actually even a real diagnosis and has no real definition that anyone can agree on. I just used it to get my point across

wow...i was wondering how this looked so much like a john wick predecessor, toned down with more realism...the club scenes and all.....vincent is a cooler john wick for me...

@@vza7938Agreed! I watched Collateral as a kid & loved it plus Vincent is more realistic due to not being as over the top compared to characters like John Wick yet still an absolute trained killer!

@@brandonsalisbury7182 man how did u love it as a kid? Maybe u were intelligent enough to appreciat that its not just an action flick..i think the actions were there just to convey that vincent was about what he spoke of

He truly is, but imo it's unfortunate he'd rather jump off jets or mountains and be a movie star/stunt man then a great actor. I wish his career was more like Leo's because he's truly great.

​@@donaldshotts4429 People forget but Tom Cruise was amazing in Born on 4th of July and should of gotten a oscar for it.

An ex special operations soldier or intelligence officer, someone who has seen so much of the worst of humanity, including the horrific results of the things the 'good guys" do and he's lost all faith with mankind. He does what he does with no malice, but because his soul was broken so all he has left is "the job", and everything he's seen in his life, especially the work he formerly did for whatever government employed him, convinced him that this, that murder and brutality is the only way anything good or bad ever really gets done in this world.

Like Zorg said in 5th Element. A died in the wool, stone cold killer.

I like to describe Vincent as someone who isn't a sociopath, but really wants to be one. He wants to feel nothing and care about no one, because then it'd be easier to handle being as alone as he is.

a much better analisys than the one in the video

@@mst3KGf I don't think Vincent cares that he is alone, I believe he prefers it to the company of the majority of people. I also don't think he's into labels, he simply is, what life has made him. He does what he does, without malice, guilt or afterthought and just moves on.

@@Rallzyugh..... im just going to call you dumb.

Cruise played an excellent psychologically realistic and deep asshole in Magnolia - very convincingly - several years before The Collateral. Actually it was one of his best performances and he was so good in that role, that I was left thinking there was A LOT of his true self in it.

one of the reasons this movie is one of my personal favorites, it's the first time seeing him as a villain and he kills it

​@@Rallzy yeah bc obviously he's never had a history of drug abuse, never had a history of anxiety, and he toooootally wasn't goofing off behind the scenes during his joker role. Do me a favor and stop taking movies "...so serious"

He played a non-hero, heartless, antagonist type in Tropic Thunder as well. Also to much acclaim

He doesn't get the recognition he deserves because he's the celebrity face of an evil cult, but he's still an amazing actor.

@@22steve5150 I forgot about that aspect of him.

@@keventy6114 I think his religion is why he doesn't get nominated for Oscars, or why he doesn't win them. I'm not a fan of his religion or cult if anyone prefers, but he is arguably the best actor today who hasn't won an Oscar. Actors should be judged on their performance, not on what they believe outside of the industry. IMHO.

@@floydcoppage1499 I agree, if it was any other actor with his body of work, they would probably have two or three Oscars by now. At this point, if he gets a "lifetime achievement award" I would consider it a slap in the face. Eyes wide shut. A few good men. Far and Away. Jerry McGuire. Valkyrie. The Last Samurai. The Firm. Collateral. the mission impossible movies and the list goes on and on. It just goes to show you how political the academy actually is.

Cruise is a great actor - and he hasn't insanely slapped anyone in a fit of "pseudo anger" in front of millions. And while Cruise is caught in a deplorable cult, so are millions upon millions of fact-denying Fox News brainwashed Trump voters - which is far scarier.

Where's Sully? "I let him go"

"Remember when I said I'd kill you last? [...] I lied"

@@kylemoore7746 "Don't disturb my friend, he is dead tired"

@@jaymeister4850 The love story between Matrix and Bennett is incredible.

@@pappy374 It's steamy. Very steamy

John Wick is more "comic book" style of a movie/hitman. Vincent has a more believable atmosphere and his character more philosophical than simply his dog being killed.

just watched collateral and thought the same thing! The close quarters gunplay looks very similar

You hit that right on the head. I KNEW I saw John Wick somewhere else...

We need a Vincent John Wick mashup in John Wick 5

Funny enough, in Payday 2 there’s a pair of glasses that are called “Collateral” I think. It references the movie and that John Wick was actually set out to kill Vincent but someone beat him to the punch. Despite canon issues with John Wick in Payday 2, I’d say it’s totally possible that Vincent was part of that world and Transporter as mentioned before. I believe the Transporter one was actually confirmed.

I don't think Hollywood likes Tom.

Tom may never win an Oscar due to Hollywood's hate for him doing things his way.

Foxx was a token nomination.

Yes.

@@frankgesuele6298 if I remember correctly, Hollywood tried to shut him down…..until they were reminded how much of their money came from him. Yes they’re that dumb

I mean, his mom died giving birth to him, his father was abusive. I think that qualifies as having a sad backstory.

@@rayraine1528 I mean, not making the audience sympathize with him with constant reminder of his backstory.

I wouldn't say he was pure evil; he had a very twisted code but I agree with you overall. Hollywood these days does seem to drop the ball with many villains. Kylo in the new Star Wars trilogy comes to mind.

exactly, sometimes few years passes in life without any changing or having real new knowledge about things, but one encounter with someone or a stranger and one conversation could add up a lot of realisation, that makes you look and wonder how long have you been going this road and maybe let you do some immediate decisions, like he could or wanted to call her right now, why the wait.. life is short, opportunities doesn't last.

Also did a great job as Lestat.

Tom Cruise is unbelievably talented, don't care what anyone says, and he constantly strives to impress his audiences, we pay these stars millions of dollars, he shows up everytime

Cruise single handedly made _Rock of Ages_ watchable because of his amazing character of Stacee Jaxx. Dude even did his own singing!

There are enough movies out there where you can see Cruise's range as an actor. I love his Ethan Hunt and Lestat. If you give him enough room to be "morally grey" in a character he can send chills up your spine. He's even pretty good in a romantic drama. Probably hands down the best actor Hollywood has ever seen.

@@Craig_Narramoore Cruise is a good actor and always entertaining, but "best actor in Hollywood" is quite a stretch.

Totally agree, Vincent imo does not hold a candle to Anton

@@Lmomjian Vincent can easily be found in real life.

​@@Patrickbatemanharvard I need to understand what I stand to win, sir

You see it too. That was a chilling villain. And after I watched it, I thought the end is abrupt & strange. And a minute later I thought, that movie is perfect. And it wins picture of the year. You knew you'd seen something powerful. I totally agree with you. Still my fav movie ever.

Anton Chigurh is inhuman both in how he treats himself and others. Vincent does treat others badly, but he does feel loneliness at some level. Anton simply gives that empty feeling which is super creepy.

100% agree, soundtrack 👌 too

I definitely fight with the fact that this could by my favourite movie as well

@@jacofalltrades7610 definitely. James Newton Howard and Tom Rothrock knocked it outta the park with the soundtrack

I agree with this!

Ready steady go.

"The way he unexpectedly slowed down to them pass and not take his own right of way while driving." ... I would expect it, but not for the reason you express here. People are conditioned to stop at red-lights or stop signs when no car is even there or wash their hands like their dick is toxic waste, humans commonly do all sorts of things for no reason. Different societies have different conditioning, thus different norms. It's not respect for life that stops a person from running over animals, it's needless and there is no gain from doing so, right? I've killed lots of animals cause I like eating them, that is the gain.

@Daniel Gutierrez I'm happy I'm not the only one who thought about it that way!

I interpreted the coyote scene as a metaphor for what vincent was talking about earlier, "Adapt, Darwin, I Ching. Whatever Man, We Gotta Roll With It" the coyotes had to adapt to living in the metro LA area to survive; as did vincent and max had to adapt that evening to survive, if vincent didn't complete his work, it meant both their asses- and seeing the coyotes was perfection punctuation for that and they both had that moment mentally at the same time. I always like to hear other folks interps on this scene, and I like yours, I think it's the best scene in the movie, with such a powerful choice of score with the audioslave track

Respectfully, I disagree. Here’s how I saw that scene: Max stops to let the coyotes cross. The two men watch the animals as they slink through the city. Yeah, they’re predators. But they’re notoriously cowardly. They go after prey that’s ideally weaker than themselves. They’re ambush hunters too. There’s nothing really noble about how the coyote hunts and kills. I think there’s two concepts present in that scene. One, Vincent has disdain for the city because it’s full of people. In his mind, worthless, filthy, pointless hordes of people. He likes to think of his forays into these places as an apex predator, hunting the sheep. But the second concept is that he sees the coyotes and realizes that’s what he really is. An ambush hunter, doing the dirty work, killing the unsuspecting prey, at the behest of the more powerful truly apex predators. A coyote. Max sees the animals and can appreciate that nature finds a way to adapt to the environment - even one that humans have created and paved over. But also, Max sees Vincent as a coyote. Dangerous, but also fearful. Capable of deadly violence, but also wanting to avoid direct confrontation. A determined human can run off a coyote with a display of aggression, especially if they’re not in a pack. And Vincent definitely has no pack. He’s just a lone coyote, trying to convince you he’s a Lion. And in the end, it’s with an act of aggression that Max defeats Vincent.

That's how I've always seen that scene too

Yea the videos have been poppin lately, nice work!

It's a toss up between Collateral and Heat for me

um… vincent is definitely a bad guy, and his motivations dont make complete sense, his character is just such a good manipulator that he even convinced you.

@@bennett4789 it does make complete sense from a strictly transactional point of view. But the way he conducts himself, is very intriguing

@@waltermatthewberg I wonder what it is about the name Vincent and Michael Mann. Pacino's character in Heat was also named Vincent.

He's the last movie star

I see people saying that he's a fantastic actor but a despicable person, albeit one who desperately wants to be seen as good.

I don’t like him as a person, and especially not the way he treated his wife and the whole freaking Scientology shit but as an actor Tom cruise is the top of the class in how he pushes the boundaries, risks his own life and etc with his stunts, lives life fully and is one of the greats and a fully committed and talented person who gives his all.

I dont dislike him, I just find his movies more interesting than his characters usually, except when he plays chaotic neutral or chaotic evil. Thats the only time where I feel like he's being creative and not just playing a version of himself.

people dont claim not to like him, people know what type of evil thing scientology is and as much as you wanna distance him from scientology, you cant

If that's ur favorite then u have bad tastes smh

@@philliplamb2761 Oh no, random internet guy thinks I have bad taste!

@@Bodyknock not a random internet guy o heaven's no, I'll say it in ur face, just as nicely too 🤷..the movie underated for sure, but I'll watch edge of tomorrow before that any day of the week, and that movie still not my top 5 🤷.

😎 Vincent is right !!

Personally I liked him in Legend the most.

Tom Hardy

@@slay2525 you mean like in Venom?

Cruise and Will Smith. I know I know the slap blah blah blah, but Smith will bounce back. He just like cruise got the charm, the talent, the wide range/variation and pure raw star power.

@@bongumusasibiya1772 will Smith is a great actor slap or no slap

Agreed

Always!😂👍🏽

KEEP MY WIFE’S NAME OUT YOUR MOTHERFCKIN COMMENTS!

How dare you acknowledge the truth that its the best scene, and NOT mention the music?? I hate club music btw, but that added to the epic quality, and of course strobe lights can help good fight choreographers when they aren't used to cover up the bad instead. Cruise's physical movements from ground to knee and all while aiming and firing work so well with the lights and music, just so memorable right away. Plus, who doesn't like seeing the Hulk play a hispanic cop?

@@IDontBuyIt50 many good points.

@@IDontBuyIt50 They used the same music in the club scene as was used in Bourne Identity during the car chase scene in Paris. I recognized it right away, awesome instrumental track from the early 2000s.

Ironically, his first major role was as a villain (Taps)

@@ra639 I saw it at the theater. He was good in it.

Like Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West.

We call it a failure drill in the marine s. Two chest one sight picture one sight alignment and then one tbox between the eyes severes the brain stem instant death cut move a muscle

Pretty cool u know this most civilians don't

I wouldnt say Max is spraying Wildly - he takes a shot and shuffles side to side kinda, so one bullet is able to go through the train car door windows. He improvises, adapts, E-Ching, overcome. It's not by the book like Vincent who does the reflexive technique

@@Defender78 He got lucky but that's all it takes. 19 out of 20 times, he would of died but Vincent has been doing this for so long, that he got his 1 in 20 roll of bad luck. Good ending.

The phrase “Professionals are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs” came to mind when I watched this scene.

I like your breakdown but what fascinates me is how entirely differently I interpreted the same ending. When Vincent says, "Do you think anybody will notice?", and Max struggles to respond but remains silent - I interpreted as meaning that Vincent's psychopathic degree of nihilism is somehow infectious - that Max now sees the world as Vincent did. The very same lights you took to be as positive, I saw as the light passing from Vincent to Max. That one person will remember Vincent forever - Max - and he has been changed by him: and not for the better. I took it as a very negative ending, that this sort of dark triad of traits will always haunt Max and therefore humanity.

@@Yvaelle To me, the reason Max struggles to respond is because, Afterall, it's been one hell of a night. did Vincent change Max? yes, but I think it was for the better. Max had dreams, but he lacked the initiative to do anything about it. he also didnt have much of a spine. these are traits Vincent clearly possesses. naturally, spending time together, Max and Vincent would begin to rub off on each other and learn from the other one. both men are forever changed after their encounter. Max now realizes life is short, like Vincent told him. he's going after what he wants.

@@YvaelleI disagree on it being a negative change for Max. I think Max will take Vincent’s positive characteristics of his point of view on how to just take action but neglect his assassination life. He’ll just take the lesson of DOING IT and facing life fearlessly as Vincent did. Which is why he removed his glasses indicating a change in mentality. Those glasses gave him a passive shy look that was no longer fitted with his action oriented mindset that Vincent gave him. I took it like he was going to go after his dreams with a Vincent mentality which I believe was the purpose of the movie. To show the viewer, through a cool story, to just go after their dreams and JUST DO IT. And it used the metaphor of an assassin doing scary shit(just like chasing your dreams is scary), and doing it.

was it ever stated that vincent was ex special forces or u assumed...cos that would make sense as i was wondering how he got so good at it

this man has Military written all over him. when I watched him kill those 2 guys in the alleyway, I just knew. in the film, they said the cartels hire out Ex Special Forces all the time.@@vza7938

The couch jump was athletic. He effortlessly rose off the floor onto cushions. A bit of his stunt abilities. Audience was crazy for it; Oprah later said in an interview with Tom that it was fun and it was. As for Scientology, could be it has something to do with Tom's abilities. We never hear of him needing rehab.

People dismiss him because of that. But any really talented actor or artist or even director will always kind of be "out there" and cruise is no exception.

Absolutely, he is an all time great

Who actually cares about the couch jump, really?

He is very talented, but I don't know that I would say that he is "underrated" as an actor. I think most people realize his talent, but can't get past his personal goofiness. My issue with Cruz is that he tends to play the same rolls over and over. Guy with a lot of potential meets tragedy that makes him rethink his life. In the end comes back stronger than ever. It is Risky Business. It is Days of Thunder. It is Top Gun 1 and 2. It is most of his movies. Its like watching WWE. You know exactly how most movies will turn out.

Absolutely!

You not mentioning Vanilla Sky but including Jack Reacher calls the value of your opinion into question.

@@fredbloggs5902 shut up

For the love of God, give his Lestat some credit

"Without me, life would be even more unbearable."

Yeah, I couldn't honestly agree that "the world is more connected than ever" on anything besides a blanket, obviously true statement of "yeah, we have internet now to talk to people in Japan or something". We're so, but so connected, that multiplayer games, the crowning achievement of the merge between social and interactive entertainment, is a bunch of people being silent and awkwardly avoiding each other; social media is people posting things for social points and rarely anything else to the point that some spend hours just watching random videos and clicking the like button instead of cleaning the goddamn sink already; everyone has gotten so disconnected to the human behind the computer, that it has become pitifully easy(er) to dehumanize others during political discussions and treat disagreements as personal attacks that need to be met with force. It's not to say that people aren't capable of being good or form proper relationships both online and offline, but the internet has surfaced so many problems with collective behavior that sometimes I wish we went back to sending letters to each other. I don't even know the name of anyone in my building, even if I know most of their faces; we have no reason to talk when anyone can get better distracted by the rectangular flashlight.

seems the three of us disagree with the narrator on that point

this was 2004. well before social media became a major thing, which makes his opinions on the lack of human interaction resonate better.

superficial

@@ShabbsArt the idea that living in high density populations causes or, at least, tends to correlate with social disconnect is a very old one

Respect.

more than a year later, same story - algorithm worked its charm, stopped few seconds later, watched the movie just now and went back to the video straight away just to appreciate the comments.. despite what vincent represents, i have to agree his worldview on "take every opportunity life throws at you" wholeheartedly

@@xaxaxz That scene in the alley: lauded as being extremely accurate and well performed.

cool. i thought the same thing

thats what i thought. both are some of my fav films

Well I think Harrison Ford , Keanu Reeves, Daniel Day- Lewis may have to have a spot in that conversation and if you are staying contemporary and Jamie Foxx is PFG too ! :)

Daniel Day Lewis is the greatest actor of all-time, even though Benecio is my favorite. Tom Cruise is definitely top 20.

@@b.g.3073 I love Mr. Lewis, but the number of films he's done isn't very large. My point was more the quantity and quality of films. There are certainly better actors than Tom.

@@theimp5901 Ford may be the closest given Star Wars, Blade Runner, Raiders and the Jack Ryan films.

@@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 Yes Mr.Lewis does not have a large base of block buster films but l feel he is certainly the best actor of this group.I think we forgot Russell Crowe.

They’re likely never working together again. Foxx dated Katie Holmes after she divorced Cruise. That would be pretty awkward on set and the media would absolutely harp on that fact during promotion for the movie.

I got shot twice and very nearly died in Iraq in 2005.

@@rascalmatt6713 The true start of the civil war

@@rascalmatt6713 Glad you made it bro.

@@timothybeardsley2715 Yeah... sometimes i wonder if i'd have been better of dead.

it was funny when Quentin confronted him on the first day shooting Django when he saw him showing up on the set with his fancy clothes and entourage, and just shouted at him WTF are you doing you're a F*king slave

Well Jamie Foxx was not only nominated for best actor for Ray which he won, but also best supporting actor for Collateral in the same year.

@@andrewforte3852 Ray was meh, I thought. I don't know why, but I thought like it was "his" version of Ray and they really share some personality traits that made it "easier" to channel Ray. Example of this is his acting in Any Given Sunday. Just didn't feel genuine, in my opinion. However I forgive him for trying to shine a better light on a talented and yet flawed individual. It would be hard to pull of a role as Bill Cosby, too, all be it harder. Other more ambiguous examples are the different actors that had attempted to play The Joker or Sherlock Holmes. Sometimes people let their perspective of how they want the character interfere with the role they are trying to play numbing it to more novel and genuine interactions. But I'm one of those people who thinks actors/actresses are better when I can't recognize them from film to film. Some people watch movies to see certain people in them.