Every Tom Cruise Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best
Updated July 5, 2023 to add Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Daredevil actor Tom Cruise is willing to risk his life with real-life stunts and has starred in big budget blockbusters for three decades. He has played soldiers, secret agents and vampires.
Below, we rank all of Cruise's films, from worst to best, by Metascore.
Additional content by Jason Dietz.
The first of three films to star Cruise and his now-ex Nicole Kidman, Days of Thunder features high-octane racing scenes and appearances from real-life NASCAR drivers. Cruise plays Cole, a young racer who makes it all the way to the Daytona 500 … and he falls in love with a beautiful doctor (Kidman), too.
“This expensive genre film about stock car racing has many of the elements that made the same team's Top Gun a blockbuster, but the producers recruited scripter Robert Towne to make more out of the story than junk food.” —Variety