On Top Of The World

For balls-out flamboyance, it’s tough to see past the opener of the Cruise/John Woo collaboration Mission Impossible II (2000), in which Tom scales a giant, sheer rock face using no equipment except his own lethal hands before receiving a top secret mission in the form of an exploding pair of designer sunglasses.

Waterpistol-gate

The thing about Cruise is that, for all the stumbling PR, he's clearly one of the nicest/nuttiest people in Hollywood, with a rosy rep for taking the time to talk to fans at red carpet events. So, even though it played out like a serial murder in the press, we’re totally down with him going Joe Pesci on the prickish funnymen squirting him with water during the London premiere of War Of The Worlds (2005).