Cocktail
Bryan Flanagan wanted to get a high-paying marketing job, but in order to get to that job you have to get a business class first and you need a large amount of money to get the certificate. Bryan decided to take a simple job at a pub in Jamaica to collect enough money to return to his country, but he is surprised at something strange when he is in a beautiful love story that has changed everything and may carry many surprises.
26 November 1911, Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, USA
23 June 1947, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
18 September 1959, USA
31 January 1959, Golden Valley, Minnesota, USA
5 June 1951, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
5 March 1950, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
18 September 1941, Independence, Kansas, USA
16 May 1952, The Bronx, New York, USA
2 December 1961, New York City, New York, USA
10 June 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 August 1931, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
17 September 1938, Silver City, New Mexico, USA
May 21, 2013
If they gave you this in a bar, you'd send it back.
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.
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
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
Cocktail is a bottle of rotgut in a Dom Perignon box.
May 21, 2013
It may not be a megaton bomb, but Cocktail is definitely of the Molotov type.
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
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
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
Very, very stupid.
