Tom Cruise remains one of the topmost A-list actors of all time, with a reputation for doing his own breathtaking stunts such as hanging off a plane, scaling the Burj Khalifa, holding his breath underwater, the famous motorcycle cliff jump in last year’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and many more.
Amid his many award-winning movies, only one made the cut for IMDb’s top 250 movies. The list is determined using various factors, including global user ratings and a voting threshold. Hence, it is a reflection of what most viewers think.
What Tom Cruise movie is among IMDb’s top 250 movies list?
The movie in question is Top Gun: Maverick, which saw Tom, a licensed pilot, get back in the cockpit as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. The 2022 production was a box office success, earning about $1.5 billion against a budget of $170 million.
Steven Spielberg termed the Top Gun installment a cinema-saving sequel during the 2023 Academy Luncheon, noting that it drew audiences back to theaters and brought back the magic of communal viewing. Top Gun: Maverick did not earn Tom any individual awards or nominations; however, it won the Best Sound category in the Oscars amongst multiple nominations.
Looking back on ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
The Joseph Kosinski-directed film came 30 years after its prequel Top Gun, which introduced Tom as a talented and youthful US Navy pilot enrolled in the Top Gun fighter weapons school. Decades later, he does not want to ascend in rank in order to remain in the cockpit.
Like Tom’s character trained younger fighter pilots ahead of a dangerous mission in the film, he was also tasked with giving other cast members flight training as real fighter jets were included in production with Tom and his co-stars experiencing real G-forces. They also worked with the Navy to use real F/A-18 Super Hornets and Naval bases.