Brandon at Random Reviews

I don’t think I’ll make this a conventional review. My feelings on this movie may already be known and it would be silly to just spell them out for you and bore you so I will do something else.

Tom Cruise annoys me. I watch him in movies like this and can’t help but feel that his acting is an approximation of human behavior. For instance, in the car when he’s switching radio stations and finally lands on “Free Fallin’” by Tom Petty and sings along, call me crazy, but that doesn’t feel real at all. Tom Cruise has never done that in real life in my opinion. He has only heard of people doing that or maybe has seen other actors doing it in other movies, but his performance does not ring true for me. Same way with him talking to Jonathan Lipnicki, I’m sure he’s heard of or maybe even seen children before, but I’m not buying that could have some snappy, good-hearted interactions with kids. If you told me Tom Cruise was a literally an alien sent by Xenu, Scientology’s dictator of the galactic confederacy, I’d be 100% more likely to believe that over Cruise being good with kids. The only thing he seems to do is what I call “frustrated acting”.

Renee Zellweger seems nice in this movie.

Regina King was good.

Bonnie Hunt isn’t bad either.

Jay Mohr always plays a good d-bag.

Jerry O’Connell and Kelly Preston are almost non-existent.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is a piece of shit, but his character seems okay. I’m not sure I’d call Cuba’s performance Oscar-worthy but then again I don’t really ever understand the Academy Awards and the winners for the most part.

Anyhoo, Jerry Maguire was a nice outing for director Cameron Crowe. I would say I liked it, but with all, and I mean ALL TOM CRUISE MOVIES, it would’ve been better if they would’ve cast someone else in the lead role.

3.5/5 stars