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25 years ago, Tom Cruise gave his best performance in one divisive '90s epic
Digital TrendsStory by Alex Welch
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25 years later, a look back at Tom Cruise's most divisive yet defining performance in a '90s cinematic epic
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- In the 1990s, Cruise was willing to take on more emotionally complex and tonally challenging roles beyond his signature action movie persona
- Cruise's performance in this '90s film divided critics but is now seen as one of the high points of his legendary career
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Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Top Gun: Maverick