With 'Top Gun: Maverick' hitting theaters, let's look at how Tom Cruise has imbued his action roles with some stellar comedy.
In his modern form, Tom Cruise is famous for his running, his indulgence in uber-dangerous stunts, and for jumping around on a couch. Your mileage may vary on what you personally think about each of those facets of his star image. However, there’s no denying that he’s endured in the public consciousness because of his commitment to a consistent star image audiences can lean on for spectacle and entertainment.
Many of Cruise’s roles in the 21st-century are just as aware of the audience's expectation that Cruise is someone who does death-defying stunts and walks away from explosions without a scratch. The only way to confront the ubiquity of that invulnerable image was to go a route where Cruise could at the very least nod towards this status quo with comedic performances that subverted expectations for what this man’s leading roles looked like.
A year after Edge of Tomorrow, the emphasis on Cruise getting into comedic mishaps while engaging in action movie stunts even infiltrated the man’s trademark franchise, Mission: Impossible. Now, this series has always wrung lots of tension out of the smallest hiccups making all the difference in monumental schemes. Just ask the rat in the air vent in the first Mission: Impossible or those malfunctioning gloves in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
Channeling such icons of comedy cinema makes perfect sense for the series and its emphasis on astonishing feats of physicality. Even better, taking cues from this trio fits in nicely with how much Cruise’s modern movies lean on comedy. Cruise can still save the day and risk his life in staggering stunts, but his recent portrayals of Ethan Hunt have been more in line with stories anchored by Chaplin and Keaton about everymen swept up in inexplicable and bizarre scenarios.
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