After blowing up the box office in 2022 with Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise arrives on Action for a cycle bringing together the best of his filmography. From this Sunday evening, you have an appointment every week with the most dashing sexagenarian on the planet for a weekly dose of cinephilia. And as you will see, it starts very strong!
If some stars give in to ease and confine themselves to a particular style of film, this is not the case with Tom Cruise. Since his debut in the 1980s, the actor has never stopped renewing himself and pushing his limits, revealing an impressive range of talents that have seduced the greatest directors and conquered the hearts of spectators around the world. But if there is a genre in which the actor excels, it is that of the muscular film with an explosive tendency. Want to immerse yourself in his spectacular filmography? In January 2023, find the hero of Top Gun: Maverick every week on Action (Channel 125 of your SFR TV box) for a cycle that kicks off at 8:50 p.m. this Sunday evening.
The first of the three films of this Sunday evening is oblivion, released in theaters in 2013. In this feature film whose story takes place in 2077, Tom Cruise is Jack Harper, the last man on Earth. Following decades of war against an alien civilization, earthlings have migrated to other skies, and Jack is responsible for overseeing the automated extraction of the last resources necessary for the survival of his people. But the crash of a manned ship will soon call into question everything he believed in until then…
08/01 8:50 p.m. – Minority Report: Tom Cruise on the run for a crime he has not (yet) committed
In the near future, in Washington, an experimental crime-fighting program predicts and prevents murders. Thanks to the Pre-cogs, three individuals endowed with the powers of divination, the agents of the Precrime arrest the assassins before they have had time to strike. At the head of this team, we find John Anderton, played by Tom Cruise. The system seems to be in place and everything is going well until one day, John discovers that he is going to assassinate a complete stranger. For the head of the Precrime division, an infernal race against time begins… Directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a novel by science fiction master Philip K. Dick, Minority Report has become cult since its release in 2002 and it is now one of the essential classics of the genre.
01/15 8:50 p.m. – The Last Samurai: an epic fresco inspired by the true story of a French officer
In 1876, in order to annihilate the last samurai of the country, Emperor Meiji calls on Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) to train his army. But the Emperor’s plans are turned upside down when Algren, injured and captured by the samurai, is taught the samurai warrior’s code of honor. Deeply touched by these values, the man will now have to choose on which side he wants to continue this war… An epic feature film with majestic images, and certainly one of the greatest war films made to date , inspired by the authentic story of Jules Brunet, a French officer who left the French army to swear loyalty to the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu.
And if you want even more action, know that there are other nice surprises on Action in this month of January. In addition to this Tom Cruise cycle, we can find another star, Ben Affleck, in The Sum of All Fears and The Town for a special evening on January 4 from 8:50 p.m. On January 13, it is Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan who will be found for the breathtaking thriller No Escape. A very nice program in perspective for fans of muscular films, also to be found on demand on your SFR box.
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