An average movie

It has been a while since I have seen this flick and maybe I should re-watch it at some point. Anyway, the main interest here was obviously to see Tom Cruise in his breakthrough performance. Of course, it was thanks to ‘Top Gun’ that he became a major star, a status he still has 30 years later, but it was with this movie that he got his first leading part and, right from the start, the guy was noticed for his charisma and the rest is just history. At the time, this flick received some solid reviews but, to be honest, I didn’t like it much. Indeed, even though many critics thought it was a great satire, I thought it was another typical teen comedy which wants you to believe that it is really raunchy but nothing really shocking happens after all. I don’t know, maybe I was too young at the time and I didn’t get all the subtlety involved. On a sidenote, it has been a while since Tom Cruise starred in a comedy (the last one was ‘Jerry Maguirre’ almost 20 years ago, of course, ‘Rock of Ages’ and ‘Tropic Thunder’ don't count since he wasn’t playing the lead) and maybe he should go back to this genre. Anyway, to conclude, even though I have seen worse, I didn’t really enjoy comedy and I don’t think it is really worth a look, expect maybe if you are a die-hard fan of Tom Cruise.

5/10