只摘录开头和结尾，中间内容是对部分电影情节的提炼，相对不是那么重要。口吻还是很微妙的，有种无可奈何必须容忍或者和解的味道，即使那丁点微弱的赞扬态度也显得很不情愿。
第一段文字，很客观，的确在这个信息爆炸的时代，能抓住人眼球的东西太多，但瞬间又被后进的信息所覆盖，能长久停留在心中的少之又少，这对克鲁斯是有利的，因为根本没人有时间或愿意花时间去讨厌他，这地球上糟心的事儿太多太多了，揪着陈谷子烂芝麻和你八竿子打不着的事儿不放多少显得有些不合时宜。其中有一句说克鲁斯desperate to be liked，也很客观，他从小缺乏来自父亲的爱，即便他和母亲姐妹一起自始至终是个很亲密的家庭，他所获得的爱也是有缺陷的，童年经历在一个人的性格养成中起了非常大的作用，所以有再多人爱他，他还是处于缺爱状态，所以他不觉得替人签名2个多小时是件多么不堪忍受的事。83-84年的一个访谈中他直接就说crave for attention，我觉得这一点他到现在也没变，当然他希望有人关注的时候得到关注想保留隐私的时候不受打扰，这要求不过分，但多少有些自私。
最后一段文字，是我认为对克鲁斯的地位最最中立最最精确的概括。昨天还看到有个老外问，为啥好莱坞这么喜欢他，明明他感觉他周围的人都不喜欢克鲁斯。我觉得，时至今日，克鲁斯的存在这件事比克鲁斯这个人本身更重要，而好莱坞更明白这一点。换用另一篇权威影评的话说，当他消失的那一天，最恨他的人也会怀念他。
It no longer matters whether you like or dislike Tom Cruise: no matter how good he looks in his ultra-moisturized, deal-with-the-devil skin, his ship has sailed not just into the waters of middle age, but beyond them. Always a performer desperate to be liked, Cruise has entered a new era, one of potential irrelevance, which could be the best thing that’s ever happened to him. In a world where we’re all either captivated or annoyed by TikTok, freaked out about global warming and the loss of a woman’s right to choose, and trying to coax recalcitrant relatives into getting vaccinated, it’s not even worth the effort to dislike him. And that, if you’re a person who has never liked Tom Cruise, frees you to enjoy the myriad over-the-top pleasures of Top Gun: Maverick.
Love Tom Cruise or hate him, he’s the only one we’ve got; his particular set of qualities have no equal. The day he stops needing to prove himself will be like the day a lion loses the will to roar. And only a cruel person would rejoice in that.
