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Tom Cruise will do ‘Anything’ to Appear Taller
By Allie | December 22, 2008
Tom Cruise walked the red carpet at the premiere of Valkyrie.
Notice how they made all the other actors appear smaller in the poster?
Much ado has been made about “Valkyrie,” starring Tom Cruise as would-be Hitler assassin Col. Claus von Stauffenberg.
There is the release date, which has been moved around several times until finally being set for Christmas, the perfect time for a feel-good movie about killing Nazis. There’s the marketing of the film: Is it a historical thriller featuring Cruise in an eye patch, or is it a straight-up action picture full of explosions? And then, of course, there is the Cruise factor itself — the fact that his very presence adds a layer of tabloid-friendly fascination.
Turns out Cruise is both the central figure in “Valkyrie” and its weakest link. He’s distractingly bad in this, the iconography of his celebrity so strongly overshadowing his performance. He’s just too powerfully contemporary. With his hard, flat American accent, he stands out in every single scene. And he’s not a good enough actor to immerse himself in this kind of period piece, or allow us to do the same. (Then again, if he had affected a German accent — or a British one to blend in among his co-stars — he would have invited derision for that, too. Maybe the guy just can’t win.)
Meanwhile, reviews of Valkyrie have been rather harsh, calling his performance “laughable.”
source: [yahoo]
Topics: Tom Cruise, Wired Gossip, Wired Movies |
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