Tom Cruise's Riskiest Movie Choice Was Also His Biggest Flop

Tom Cruise's Riskiest Movie Choice Was Also His Biggest Flop

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Tom Cruise rightfully gets a lot of credit for putting everything into his work, up to and including death-defying stunts no company should ever insure. The man jumped around the Burj Khalifa , repeatedly launched a motorcycle off a cliff , and hung off the wing of a plane mid-flight .

He’s also known for choosing risky roles that usually pay off. He took the fame from the first Top Gun and Risky Business to prove himself as a dramatic actor in Rain Man , then earned an Oscar nomination for a role that decidedly did not trade on his good looks in Born on the Fourth of July . He scored another nomination playing a sexist creep in Magnolia and delivered his best comedic perfor