SummaryBrian Flanagan is a young, confident, and ambitious bartender who, with the help of a seasoned pro , becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to Jamaica and meets an independent artist, their vivid romance brings a new perspective to the self-centered bartender's life. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
SummaryBrian Flanagan is a young, confident, and ambitious bartender who, with the help of a seasoned pro , becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to Jamaica and meets an independent artist, their vivid romance brings a new perspective to the self-centered bartender's life. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
Tom Cruise does with bartending pretty much what he did with a pool cue in "The Color of Money." In other words, he shows skill at a con game while being less successful with the woman in his life. [29 Jul 1988, p.A]
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.
This movie is better than how they rated it in general...
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Cocktail is a 1988 comedy, romance, drama starring Tom Cruise.... Brian Flannagan (Tom Cruise) looks for a job and is hired by some bartender named Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown) then moves to Jamaica to run a bar up there and falls in love with Jordan (Elisabeth Shue)... Cocktail is full of fights, great music, bar scenes, mild sex scenes, bad language, scenes of cheating and great moments apart from the suicide done by Bryan Brown's character which is slightly sad as his character in the film was pretty likeable.. Of course there's the odd character in Cocktail you may dislike, the acting is okay sort of even if sometimes over the top but Cocktail is a great film all in all.. Also stars Kelly Lynch and Gina Gershon.
Near Cocktail's numbing end, viewers who are still awake will hear love interest Elisabeth Shue warn Cruise: "Your sexy little smile isn't going to work this time.'' Drink to that - a Bloody Mary to a bloody shame. [29 Jul 1988, p.4D]
Arm wrestling and hamburger building have been exhausted as backgrounds for movies, so it was probably inevitable that bartending would be next. But nothing quite prepares you for the hamburger that Cocktail makes of an old and relatively honorable profession. [29 Jul 1988, p.14]
There is no reality here, and no style: Cocktail waters down the philosophy of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and serves it in a shot glass to hustlers. High school hustlers. [29 Jul 1988, p.C11]
There isn't a scene in Cocktail that isn't cheap and dumb, and whether its camp entertainment value compensates for its contempt for women is a question. Cocktail makes beer commercials look deep, makes "Top Gun" look like "Hamlet." [29 Jul 1988, p.21]
Cocktail is a romance drama film directed in 1988 by Roger Donaldson and stars Tom Cruise, Kelly Lynch, Bryan Brown and Elisabeth Shue.... Cocktail is an old film that I remember growing up and I can certainly say it's not the best film I'll be honest but it's fun and there are much worser movies. The short fight scenes involving Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown are great and a few others later. I like how Tom Cruise jumps from one woman to another and is the desire of every woman which is totally unrealistic and unbelievable. The acting isn't great but Tom Cruise carries the film in my opinion with help from Bryan Brown and I didn't find any of the characters annoying except the odd one or two. The bar scenes with Tom Cruise are great and learning how to flip bottles and the soundtrack is good except from a Jamaican song or something in the film. The romance aspects are good even if some bits cheesy and there's obviously sex scenes even if you don't see much nudity. Tom Cruise basically plays a bartender and gets taught by Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown) how to be a bartender. Later on Tom Cruise starts a bartender business in Jamaica and gets a girl pregnant then cheats on her and gets back with her and then becomes a father at the end. Good enough film in my opinion and Kelly Lynch looked hot.
Gets through on the sheer force of Cruise and Brown, even though it feels like they are performing in 2 completely different movies. So much unintentional comedy and too many good (bad) quotes to mention. The plot and characters are all completely nonsensical.
Cocktail is an ok movie, the plot is weird but Brian (Tom Cruise) is really good throughout this movie.
Also, there's some stupid moments throughout this movie, which don't make much sense or link up to anything.
The movie's even got a pretty good soundtrack, which include lots of good songs.
Finally, Tom Cruise is a really good bartender and he's honestly great at making drinks throughout this movie, I think him studying bartending for his role really paid off.
Overall, Cocktail is an ok movie. It's got a very questionable plot, a pretty good soundtrack and Tom Cruise being really good at making drinks as a bartender.
can be a diplomatic..
Cocktail
Cocktail is a plot driven romantic drama about a guy going the distance with no bars held in order to achieve fame and success in a snap. It's various acts itself are filtered out with its own theme and frankly none of them blends in, none of them makes sense. The songs are uplifting with a sizzling theme that oozes smoothness but has poor cinematography, amateur camera work and dull editing. Those cheap dialogues, shallow monologues, cheesy moves and weaving of unnecessary sequences that reeks commercial cinema in order to lure the audience in, gives away the tone of the feature within first few minutes. The bartending skills that Cruise adapts, his euphoric energy and all the lyrical songs performed makes it entertaining for the first act. And as it ages on screen, it makes less and less sense with its banal ideology to a point where the viewers finds itself waiting for the closure of the makers. It is a tale that expects you to keep your hands up and feel surrendered all the time in order to have a time of your life just like the characters are having, but if whatsoever sense kicks in even the smartest of all character, it is pretty Layman in this world. Cruise's energy is what fuels this teenager flick where his enthusiastic chants like "positive, positive thinking.." is genuinely hopeful to us, it's a completely different thing that it is **** into bits latter.
Neither the structure nor earthiness that it aspires to foliate onto screen is worthy enough to brew the sincerity out of this "patch up and move on" characters. Cruise humming few songs, Coughlin's law and its ludicrous intensed last act that actually makes fun of itself and draws in most of the laughs are the high points of the feature. Cocktail is set in a world of "black and white" figurines, it neither is nor can be a diplomatic.