This film with Tom Cruise, which flopped in the United States in 2017 but is currently a hit on Netflix, finally changed the life of the Top Gun actor

2022 is the year of Tom Cruise. Here we are at the end of a summer dominated by the small giant of the cinema, Tom Cruise. Top Gun: Maverick which single-handedly drew crowds to movie theaters around the world. But it took a nadir to get there. Cruise has worn movies his entire professional life, and survived controversial public outbursts, three very public divorces, and a close affiliation with Scientology in the process. He almost didn’t survive the movie. The Mummy of 2017.

While the original iteration of The Mummy, starring Brendan Fraser as a slapstick Indiana Jones, has become a classic of action and comic book cinema, Cruise’s version, despite what his current position in the Netflix ratings suggests, will never be adored. Fraser’s romantic adventurer idol is replaced by Cruise’s Nick Morton, who accidentally wakes an Egyptian princess from her crypt and then has to spend 100 minutes trying to put her back there. Somewhere in It: Ghosts, Russell Crowe as Jekyll and Hyde, and a failed attempt to fit Cruise into the landscape of modern action heroes, in the mold of Robert Downey Jr.’s sarcastic Iron Man. more unforgivable – especially for a Cruise film – is that it relies on laughable CGI to create a digital stain when Cruise has always insisted on physical authenticity.

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The film did well internationally (grossing $410 million) but was a huge commercial flop in the United States and was completely destroyed by critics. Destined to spawn a cinematic universe of classic monsters, including Frankenstein and Dracula, The Mummy instead imploded all of the studio’s plans. Cruise seemed like a timeless man, chasing after trends and a sort of conformity when he was always the trailblazer.

In 2017, Cruise’s future as an action hero seemed far less certain. He was still making good films, like the brilliant Edge of Tomorrow, but he hadn’t had a real megahit (outside of the franchise Impossible mission) for a while. The Mummy was about to set him on a very particular trajectory. It’s got a lot of the typical Cruise characteristics that we all love – Jackie Chan-style hustle acting, broad and slightly corny humor and lots and lots and lots of racing. And yet, the final result is at the limit of the incomprehensible, without helping a performance which is not at all sure of it. And Tom Cruise never seemed uncertain about anything.

But, of course, Cruise got up. At some point, he must have sat down (or more likely base-jumped) and wondered how to reach his past heights – what could he offer the world that no other man or woman in Hollywood could? The answer: his body. Cruise has since shot two movies The MummyMission: Impossible – Fallout and Top Gun: Maverick- and both revolve around the insane things he’s willing to do to get the perfect shot. Whether it’s a 25,000 foot HALO jump or piloting a fighter jet, Cruise, like Ethan Hunt and Maverick, has no limits. What people seem to expect from the Tom Cruise of the late modern era is full body and extreme. It took The Mummy to realize it.

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This film with Tom Cruise, which flopped in the United States in 2017 but is currently a hit on Netflix, finally changed the life of the Top Gun actor