Tom Cruise

With a decent box office performance and mixed reviews, Oblivion stands at one of Tom Cruise's most underrated movies ever. Here's why.

He has to cling on to the vague memories he has of his life with Julia because he knows that the rest of mankind is counting on him. His performance functions as the charismatic lead of a sci-fi blockbuster, but he also depicts the heartbreaking nature of a man whose entire life has been stolen from him. Oblivion reveals early on that Jack’s only source of human interaction every day is his communications office Victoria (Andrea Risenborough); both of their memories have been wiped, but Jack is tormented by dreams of his life on Earth before the war where he was happily in love with another woman. Perhaps this is why despite Oblivion’s financial success, it failed to top the records set by Cruise’s work on the Mission: Impossible series and War of the Worlds. Sequels like Mission: Impossible II and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back simply didn’t live up to the hype, and stepping outside his comfort zone proved to be a mistake when it came to The Mummy and Rock of Ages. [Tom Cruise](https://movieweb.com/person/tom-cruise/) is without a doubt one of the greatest movie stars of all time.