Cocktail
It's a story that seems closer to reality than a man named Brian Flanagan. Brian wanted a high-paying marketing job that he had long dreamed of. Brian found out that in order to reach that job, it was necessary to get the degree of business first. After that, Bryan decided to take a job at a pub in Jamaica in order to collect enough money to return, and maybe there would fall in love that would change everything.
24 August 1942, Missouri, USA
20 February 1967, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
7 September 1961, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
18 September 1959, USA
9 June 1956, Seneca Falls, New York, USA
May 21, 2013
Cruise oozes as much charm as in Top Gun and The Colour of Money, but the mix of bar-acrobatics and Caribbean love isn't anywhere near strong enough to get you drunk.
May 21, 2013
Cruise is beguiling with his smile and his swagger, but the script doesn't take us anywhere fresh when it leaves the barroom.
May 21, 2013
Cocktail is a bottle of rotgut in a Dom Perignon box.
May 21, 2013
The philosopher Hannah Arendt once wrote a book about the banality of evil. After seeing Cocktail, I want to write one about the evil of banality.
May 21, 2013
It may not be a megaton bomb, but Cocktail is definitely of the Molotov type.
May 21, 2013
If they gave you this in a bar, you'd send it back.
May 21, 2013
This vacant, misshapen film is basically an extended beer commercial that presents the world as a ludicrous place populated by sex-and-cash-and-booze-crazed zomboids. Cruise, meanwhile, comes off as a somewhat taller Spuds MacKenzie.
May 21, 2013
With no fewer than 17 of Donaldson's favorite rock songs and a complete lack of dramatic impetus, Cocktail would fare better as an extended-play music video.
May 21, 2013
Very, very stupid.
May 21, 2013
If some other drug were treated this way in a movie, lots of outraged people -- including parents and politicians -- would be up in arms. But it's only alcohol, the reasoning seems to go, so it's all harmless fun.
May 21, 2013
Perhaps the best one can say for this bland concoction mixed by agents and the studio executives is that every bartender in Hollywood wants to be Tom Cruise and that suffices as an ironic subtext.
May 21, 2013
The pairing of old-hand Brown and young-hand Cruise may have been meant to remind us of Cruise and Paul Newman; if so, think of this as The Color of Counterfeit Money.
