Cocktail (1988)

Mystery Women are filled in this movie called 'Cocktail' because there are at the bars shoots are inflammable products. 'Flames' between actor and actress are our scenarios to miss 'Tom Cruise' after the movie is over because he has skills near the flammable bottles of alcohol. The movie hosts intense dramatically difficult scenes to Choreograph in the two dimensional world because like a play by Shakespeare the movie has crowds in them. The bars are where 'Tom Cruise' is found; not that we look for him but for his friend who is not in 'flames' with the same girl. Flames are the game that children like us played because girlfriends were not worth having but games during the breaks like destroying a rose by pulling the leafs or petals of the flower one by one gave the count of fiction between boy and girl a meaning. 'Flames' are also the game of matching two people's name together; 'Tom Cruise' for instance with someone like 'Kate Winslet' and finding which letter of the flames does not fall. Love or l the letter brings luck as the end result of that game. Cocktail extremely skillful and stylish: not to be counted with 'Flames'.

Cocktail (1988)Plot In A Paragraph: Brian Flanagan (Tom Crusie) an ambitious student learns the tricks of the trade and a few life lessons from Doug Coglan (Bryan Brown) a talented New York City bartender. After serious Cruise in The Colour Of Money, it was back to flashy/commercial Cruise in Cocktail. This movie appears on a lot of So Bad, It's Good lists, which I think is unfair. It's hardly Showgirls, and it perfectly captures the time and the excess of the late 80's. It's a bit more style over substance, but so what?? Like most 80's movies, it also has a great soundtrack too. A great, fun soundtrack can totally make a silly movie (and Cocktail is silly) better.Cruise may not be at his dramatic best, but he is it his charming, smiling best. I have to admit, I develop a crush on Elizabeth Shue, every single time I watch this movie. Brian Flanagan steals every scene he is in (Dman that man is charismatic in this movie) Gina Gershon is fine in her small role and Kelly Lynch looks superb in several bikinis. The reshot scenes stand out, mainly due to Cruise's hair (it's longer, how he has it in Rain Man) apparently these reshoots cut down Shue and Lynch screen time, whilst relegating Dougs plans and subsequent problems to almost a single scene. Although, probably not in my Top 10 Cruise movies, I usually watch this movie every year or so, and always enjoy it. Cocktail grossed $78 million at the domestic box office, to end the year the 9th highest grossing movie of 1988. For some reason I had it in my head this movie under performed, But it was Cruise's second highest grosser (behind Top Gun) and second best chart position (also behind Top Gun)

After the box office success of Top Gun that catapulted Tom Cruise into mega-stardom,the producers and director Roger Donaldson cast him to make a film that has themes about love and materialism.And the result is Cocktail.It tells the story of Brian Flanagan,a former member of the U.S. Army who goes home to New York hoping to make a big fortune for himself.He starts looking for a job at Wall Street but nobody hires him which makes him end up in meeting Douglas Coughlin,an owner of bar.It results in him into becoming a bartender.This started to become a father-and-son relationship with Douglas mentoring Brian about the so-called "essentials of bartending" and life in general.Unfortunately,it ends up in a break-up after getting involved in an unlikely love triangle involving Coral.This prompts Brian to move to Jamaica wherein he meets a vacationing artist Jordan Mooney and romance between them results.The story progresses with a conflict between them,Douglas and Brian re-uniting,Brian becoming a boy-toy of a rich woman and later having Brian realize his materialistic ways and promises to change for the better and fight for love of Jordan,who unknowingly was a daughter of a Wall Street executive.No question that the movie is definitely shallow and simplistic.It wasn't meant for the audience to become better people despite the fact that the theme of materialism was brought up and making a message that money isn't everything in life.It was basically all about Tom Cruise and bartending.It was about life of the barman and bars.No question that Tom Cruise's charm and appeal was enough to bring people into the theaters.Aside from Cruise,the film also has great soundtrack.In the end,this unforgettable 80's box office guilty pleasure hit will never fall short of entertainment.An enjoyable bad movie indeed.

"Cocktail" is like one of those easy listening radio stations. It just works as background, it's fine as long as you don't pay too much attention. There's no real story, so if you tune out for ten minutes it doesn't matter at all. It's just scene after scene of Tom Cruise making cocktails, occasionally interrupted with a redundant love interest. It's a highly repetitive movie that goes absolutely nowhere, though Cruise's performance is a real saving grace. He carries the movie even though he has nothing to carry and makes this thing better than it deserves to be. He breathes life into his underwritten character and at least makes these scenes somewhat entertaining. It's still just a movie that devotes 90% of its running time to guys standing behind a bar taking orders, the fact that Cruise somehow makes that...palatable is already an impressive feat. Not impressive enough to recommend this though.