Cocktail stars Tom Cruise as Brian, a young man who returns to New York after serving his country but cannot get a job on Wall Street or in Advertising so he goes to a Bar one night and sees a Help Wanted sign put there by Doug (Bryan Brown) who says that if he sticks with him he'll make him a star.
I hated this movie and the reasons are three:
- First off is I hated these characters, they are reprehensible to watch on screen and they consistently make the wrong choices in their lives and when something good comes along you just want to strangle them for botching it so badly and they are also just so bloody unlikeable.
- Which leads me to my second point which is the very questionable morals in this film that is pretty much represented in the characters Cruise and Brown play and they both have this unshakeable belief that drinking all night and picking up girls at the bar and having unprotected sex will lead to "Happy Days are Here Again, They Skies Above are Clear Again Let Us Sing a Song of Cheer Again" when it just fundamentally does not I mean not once do these guys have any hangovers so it feels more like a glorified sugar drink than real alcohol.
- And lastly it wastes some good actors, I love watching Brown but he is wasted here, Elisabeth Shue does a good job with the pathetic script material she's been handed, Kelly Lynch gets little to do and Cruise is just obnoxious and his early scenes made me think he would've been out of his depth as Bud in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, what a real shame this happened to these actors.
So all in all I hated Cocktail with its reprehensible characters, questionable morals about alcohol and the waste of talented actors, 1 out of 5.
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