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The Peculiar Joy of Watching Tom Cruise Jump From the Sky
It wasn’t so long ago that the actor’s career seemed to be in free fall. In Paris, he got a hero’s welcome.
The live jump into the Stade de France was unremarkable for an event that had performers dropping from great heights all evening, and the pre-recorded leap out of an airplane into Los Angeles didn’t quite have the razzle-dazzle of what he’s done in movies like Mission: Impossible – Fallout. We don’t need to spend much time on the sordid details — the notorious couch-jump, the Matt Lauer interview, the Brooke Shields contretemps, the secretive and messy divorces, the Scientology of it all — but back in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it really did seem like American moviegoers (as well as critics, who had always kept him at a bit of a distance) had had enough of Cruise. But then he biked down the streets of Paris, got on that plane, and sky-dived into Los Angeles, the sequence (at least the Cruise part) ending on one final, sublime crane shot of him standing atop the Hollywood sign.
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