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Summary: A Feel Good Movie....
Review: What a great film! Stars Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown. You keep a steady grin throughout the first half of the movie. From catching the bus to NYC, to going to class with young Flanagan, through looking for work on Wall Street, and then finally meeting Coughlin. Later, a 25-year old Shue appears. What a great young woman! She's smart, fun, good sense of humor, and of course, very pretty. Any guy would be lucky to meet her (Oh yeah, we find out later that she's an original "rich chick").You'll love the scenes of the old New York skyline and the beautifully breath-taking beaches of Jamaica, mon. A classic movie that everyone should watch and enjoy. Good songs and memorable quotes throughout as well.
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Summary: Avoid
Review: If you don't know what I.Q. is, but if you did, you are sure you could count your's without takeing off more than one shoe ( only if you are sure ) you may enjoy this film.
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Summary: So 80s
Review: But I love it. The acting is so-so but I just cant help falling in love with it. The DVD is not spectacular but at least it is in Widescreen. The movie is glamourus and it is very neonic. If you just want to watch a movie that is just plain fun, then this is the movie.
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Summary: One of the WORST movies ever!!
Review: This, by far is one of the worst movies EVER made. I don't even know why I bought it. It was stupid. That movie was over rated! Just horrible! I like Tom Cruise WAY better in "Days of Thunder", "Risky Business", his small "Outsiders" role, "Rain Man" and "Top Gun". I don't really like movies about bartenders and their romance. This movie fails, I give it a 0 and an F. Video Renters Beware! You will NOT like this movie! Have more fun watching glue dry.
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Summary: Cocktail: More Than the Sum of its Parts
Review: In most Tom Cruise movies, he is in earnest, with his Julia Roberts smile often carrying the day. It is to his early films that the viewer must turn to see him enjoying himself. In COCKTAIL, director Roger Donaldson shows a side to Cruise that seems to have disappeared shortly after the release of this movie. Cruise is a bartender who hooks up with fellow bartender Bryan Brown in what at first seems to be a buddy movie. The chemistry between the two is palpable with Brown as the sage guru of alcohol and Cruise as his quick study grasshopper. Had the movie limited itself to that level, the result almost certainly would have been more of interest with Cruise taking on the George role and Brown as Lenny from OF MICE AND MEN. Enter rich girl Elizabeth Shue as the romantic interest for Cruise. She tries mightily to generate sparks but she is overshadowed by the male bonding between Brown and Cruise. What makes this movie sizzle is not the plot, in whose predictability one has seen dozens of times before, but in the dazzling melding of song and surprisingly competent acting by all concerned, especially by Bryan Brown, who shows one happy side to the world but does not permit anyone to see the darker layer underneath. In a film that is clearly designed to appeal more to a music hungry audience than to a critic who seeks traditional ways to judge a movie, COCKTAIL stands as a vastly entertaining movie that, if you delve beneath the color and noise of a throbbing musical score, you will also see a film that has a few enduring comments about the need of one man to find respect from his peers even if it means that this education comes at at high price.
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Summary: Interesting look back . . .
Review: Tom Cruise's boundless self-confidence always makes a movie interesting, no matter how cerebrally barren the script is. Cocktail is not that bad, though. I wish there had been a lot more bar action, more logical negativism, Coughlin's laws, and more Bryan Brown in general, and less of all the loopy romance. Maybe it's just the pacing, or the way they tried to make so much out of such trivial circumstances. Still, pretty interesting to watch.
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Summary: So Awful that it's Amazing!
Review: Every now and then a film comes along that has such poor acting, insane plot twists, and utterly absurd screenplay that you can't help but enjoy it....alot! "Cocktail" is just that film! With Tom Cruise as an arrogant, young, uber-bartender, the always amusing Bryan Brown as his English mentor, and Elizabeth Shue as the woman Cruise falls for, you've got quite a cast! Throw in some startling and bizarre apperances by Kelly Lynch, Gina Gershon, and that white guy from the Jeffersons and you get an interesting ensemble.
Watch it just once, and some of the amazing one-liners will stick in your head ("beer is for breakfast around here...drunk or begone," or just about any of Coughlin's Laws). The banter between Cruise and Brown is quite interesting, as is their highly coordinated bar stunts. Shue is fun to watch in every scene, though not as fun as she was when she was getting it from all those guys backdoor-style in "Leaving Las Vegas."
All in all, "Cocktail" will puzzle you, startle you, surprise you, and, like a good bartender, keep you coming back, round after round!
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Summary: A large scotch and soda and a smaller ego please .
Review: This is the best film to come out of , the fire I had in my shed.The other two being INTRUCTIONS FOR GROWING DANDELIONS , in japanese , and COALMINING AND ITS AFFECT ON THE SHADE OF MOLEHAIR . Tom Cruise plays a barman whos hair changes from scene to scene like a traffic light . The boy has ambition to strike it rich ,and in between studies ,goes to work in Bryon Browns bar.Where the two of them dance about and throw bottles into the air like a chimps teaparty .Meanwhile all the customers die of thirst, so tom goes off into the sun to find a rich woman to latch onto . He soon finds one that has a thing for men in elevator shoes . Will he stay with the money ,or marry his true love ,the queen of the leprechauns , in a traditional . lets all walk under a snakes belly wedding . I belive the film was originally ,to be called TWO SHOW OFFS . Then after the film was viewed in its entirety and the investors had killed themselfs ,they settled for COCKTAIL . Changing hair the insomniacs cure .
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Summary: FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER!
Review: The seasoned bartender, Doug Coglin, has to be the funniest character of any 80's movie made. (Even though he doesn't intend to be) If he's so experienced and knows all the ropes, why's he behind the bar at a TGIFriday's?! And his constant 'know-it-all,' English, mentor tone dialogue is classic. "Beer is for breakfast around here. Either drink or be gone..." So quotable.
The other funny part of this movie is the fact they're 4 deep at the bar and it takes these guys 10 mintues to make one drink! Who would go back to that bar?! Classic 80's 'style before substance' film.
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Summary: A fun film
Review: For those people who gave this film poor ratings, I think they're missing the point. It's supposed to be a fun film over all. It's not supposed to be serious acting with a heavy plot. Sometimes it's nice to watch a film where you don't have to think... you just sit down and enjoy. I personally enjoy films that 'take me someplace,' either physically or emotionally. This one takes you on a bit of a roller coast ride with Tom Cruise's character. While on that ride, you get to travel around to hip bars and tropical islands. There are a few emotional bumps in his path, but all turns out well with a nice happy ending. No, the film is not rocket science, nor is it supposed to be. It won't win an Oscar either, but if you're looking for an enjoyable movie where you can just sit down, relax, and have a good time, this might be a good selection for you.
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