Every day, Allociné recommends a film to (re) see on TV. Tonight: Ethan Hunt's famous interpreter pays tribute to a hero of the Vietman war.
A week after the mission cinema release: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, we take stock of one of the most beautiful roles of Tom Cruise. It is not about Ethan Hunt, or even Maverick in Top Gun, but Ron Kovic, an American pacifist activist paralyzed from the Vietnam War.
This hero of history, which existed, was injured in 1968 in the spine and paralyzed for life. Released in the cinema in 1990, born on July 4 of Oliver Stone (to whom we owe the excellent Platoon war film) traces the terrible epic of Ron Kovic to find a meaning in life.
Tom Cruise is accompanied by other actors well known to the general public: Willem Dafoe (poor creatures) Raymond J. Barry (Steel City), Josh Evans (The Doors), Bryan Larkin (Donjons & Dragons: The honor of thieves), Lili Taylor (Conjuring: Warren files) or Kyra Sedgwick (The Road Within).
That's not all, since the director Oliver Stone Also makes a brief appearance (as is often the case in his films) by slipping into the skin of a reporter.
When Tom Cruise pays tribute to a war hero
We therefore take advantage of the mission outing: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, to take stock of the eclectic career of Tom Cruise. From the unforgettable Fantastic Maintenance film with a vampire (1994) to the cult Top Gun (1986), passing through the moving Rain Man (1988), the actor went through all genres!
Its performance in Born on July 4which is a war film, is also in the top 15 of its best roles on the screen. Besides, she was praised by criticism, since Tom Cruise was received his first Oscar appointment, and was even elected best actor in a drama with Golden Globes.
That's not all, since the real Ron Kovic was so touched by the interpretation of Tom Cruise that he offered him his “star bronze” (decoration intended to reward the soldiers who distinguished themselves by a heroic conduct) during a symbolic date: on July 3, 1989, that is to say the day when the American actor celebrated his twenty-seventh anniversary. Undoubtedly the most beautiful awards for Tom Cruise.
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