![]() Mission: Impossible - Fallout has been hailed the best action movie of 2018-even if it, too, is committed to perpetuating the fiction that as the franchise has gotten older, Cruise has stayed the same age. This year, however, we’re all singing a different tune. “Cruise is strong and agile,” they clucked in the wake of American Made, but “nobody needs him to pretend he’s 20 years younger than he is, too.” Freezing himself in a state of perpetual adolescence, they charged, had even sapped Cruise of his humanity. “ It’s time for Tom Cruise to act his age,” they said after the supernatural bomb that was The Mummy. Every now and again-particularly after the perennial action star releases a dud-the admonitions come. ![]() Over the years, there’s been no shortage of moments when the culture has called for Tom Cruise to accept the scourge that plagues us all: mortality. ![]()
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