When Tom Cruise's public persona was getting away from him and his career was following suit, it was a flop - Knight and Day - that turned things around by poking fun at his weird intensity. djmecca explains:
served as the nail in the proverbial coffin. Paramount distanced itself from its once-brightest star and Cruise began a career rebuild in mid-plummet, the only way you’d expect him to. Only, this time, he didn’t stick the landing.of a storied movie studio and released a political drama that nobody saw as well as a WWII thriller that received a lukewarm reception. The most positive thing to come out of the latter was a new creative partner for Cruise: Christopher McQuarrie.
The real pivot point came in 2010, when writer Patrick O’Neill and director James Mangold finally madeafter years in development hell. The film stars Cruise as superspy-on-the-run Roy Miller, who pulls unwitting Boston civilian June Havens into his world of MacGuffins, double-crosses and whirlwind romances. It grossed
would inform much of the success that came after for Cruise. His Roy Miller is a knowing punchline. Miller is a construct designed to laugh with the audience about the person playing him. In 2010, Tom Cruise’s Q score was Or how about a smaller moment, when Miller is attempting to land a plummeting commercial airplane? June asks “Are we going down?!” Roy replies calmly, “No, no June, it’s just a rapid descent.”
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