Stars of actionmovies, like TomCruise in TopGunMaverick and BradPitt in BulletTrain, are older than they've ever been, and that may not be good news.
When you think of action movies, and action more generally, what you might imagine is young men jumping around and swinging from burning buildings to collapsing bridges as they chase a bad guy and defy death. These men and women are almost always in their prime, sporting nearly superhuman physiques that only the best Hollywood trainer can accomplish.
By the middle of the first decade of this century, though, Cruise was doubling down on action movies, and for the past decade, that’s basically all he’s made. In theory, one would think this trend would go the other way: Cruise would start his career in a variety of action vehicles, and eventually move on to roles in more prestige-driven projects that required less running and jumping.
Take The Gray Man, for example, a movie featuring a couple of younger action stars. While the movie has been a major success for Netflix and may even spawn a sequel and cinematic universe, the action itself feels almost totally anonymous. It doesn’t really suggest that Ryan Gosling will be a generational action star, and that’s in large part because he’s not nearly as iconic as Cruise, Pitt, or even Reeves.
These older stars could provide an excellent model for what younger stars should be doing, and Cruise does some version of that in Top Gun: Maverick, where he shepherds a roster of young stars into the cockpit and shows them how to be action heroes. By the movie’s end, though, what Maverick seems to have realized is that none of these young stars are actually fit to stand in Cruise’s shoes. Can you imagine Miles Teller headlining Top Gun 3? We can’t either.
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