Tom Cruise Rewind

At the end of the 80s, Tom Cruise finally proved to critics that he was more than just the teen film star-turned-action hero with his role as a traumatized war veteran in Born on the Fourth of July . Halfway through the 90s, Cruise was back on critics' radars, this time for a role that was quite opposite to Ron Kovic. In Jerry Maguire , Cruise plays a high-strung, commitment-phobe sports agent in search of real friendship and love after the loss of his job. While Cruise had appeared in comedies and romance movies before, Jerry Maguire is arguably the first real romantic comedy he starred in -- and it remains one of the best outings of his career.

As much as people criticize the entertainment industry nowadays for their constant reboots and remakes, it could be argued that this trend started back in the 90s with the countless film versions of classic media staples, generally either TV shows or comics. Tom Cruise wasn't immune to this trend; in 1996, he starred in the film adaptation of the 1960s TV show Mission: Impossible . This movie had little in common with the original show, with only one shared character and a modern setting, but this doesn't matter much when Mission: Impossible went on to spawn 7 sequels. So how does it hold up 24 years later?