If there’s one thing Tom Cruise knows how to do, it’s be a movie star. Over the years, he’s achieved a mythic stature as the last of a dying breed, from a time when leading actors mattered more than the characters they’d inhabit or the costumes they’d wear. However true that is or not, there’s no denying that some movies feel tailor-made for him, usually because they know how to key in on some part of him.
The actor previously compared Cage’s deaths to that of Wile E. Coyote, but they’re also similar to how you die in a roguelike game like Dark Souls or Hades. Cage learns the ropes with the help of Blunt’s Rita Vrataski, and he comes to hold his own, but as is the case in games of those type, sometimes you just get got because you overcommitted or got put into a bad position.