Tom Cruise's 8 Lowest-Scoring Movies

Tom Cruise has jumped off everything. These are the 8 times the movie.guru score didn't jump with him. Ranked by data, roasted with love.

Number one made over half a billion dollars and still lands dead last.

1. 8
   Mission: Impossible (1996)5.9

   Too good for this list. The data is being rude.

   A 5.9 on movie.guru, but $457.7M worldwide and a 7.2 on IMDb from 524,832 voters. De Palma turned a TV show into a franchise that refuses to stop.
2. 7
   Valkyrie (2008)5.8

   Tense history thriller that earned way more than 5.8.

   Crowds liked it more than critics: audiences beat 61% of movies, critics just 43%. Branagh, Nighy and Wilkinson in one room deserves a better number.
3. 6
   Jack Reacher (2012)5.8

   Werner Herzog as the villain should be worth two points alone.

   An A minus CinemaScore and $218.3M worldwide on a reported $60M budget. Critics gave it a 50 on Metacritic. Audiences understood the assignment.
4. 5
   War of the Worlds (2005)5.3

   This is a good Spielberg movie. Audiences got it wrong.

   76% on Rotten Tomatoes, 73 on Metacritic, $603.9M worldwide. Audiences only beat 34% of movies, which is how a 5.3 happens to a legit alien nightmare.
5. 4
   Digger (2026)5.2

   Iñárritu directing Cruise in a comedy was a swing and a miss.

   A reported $125 to 180M budget, $41.7M worldwide and a C+ CinemaScore. Yet IMDb sits at 7.5, so somebody out there is building a shrine.
6. 3
   Oblivion (2013)4.7

   Best-looking movie here. The story runs on autopilot.

   592,234 IMDb voters gave it a 7.0, yet critics and audiences agreed on 4.7. Kosinski built a stunning empty planet, and the script feels just as empty.
7. 2
   Vanilla Sky (2001)4.5

   Ambitious, baffling, and audiences walked out personally offended.

   A D minus CinemaScore. 41% on Rotten Tomatoes. Still pulled $100.6M domestic, mostly from people leaving the theater asking each other what just happened.
8. 1
   Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)3.7

   Worst Mission ever made. John Woo fans, come get me.

   A 3.7 movie.guru score, the only Poor on this list. Audiences beat just 20% of movies. It still made $546.4M worldwide, which explains a lot about 2000.

$741.29 says the first comment is a John Woo fan writing a full essay on why #1 belongs at #8.

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