Saiyan_Prince_Vegeta This movie is an excellent movie about pool and makes it look so easy when these excellent actors play it. Makes it look real easy. Tom Cruise is brilliant and it just shows what a great actor he always was, because he learnt to play pool very well for this movie. One of his many skills. I think this is the first movie I've seen with Newman, he was TC's inspiration, and he indeed looks like a good actor.This movie also shows you how pool players make money. It also shows some interesting ideas. 1. Manipulation. In order to make money in some professions people use manipulation. For example in this movie pool players when playing with opponent would on purpose lose a few times until they stake more and then they would win. So, like Newman said it is important to learn how to lose as well. Also he said since Tom Cruise acts very childishly, no one takes him seriously, so he can fool them even further. 2. Interesting quote from Newman, which basically says that if you do something very well then money will just come to you. (Glavnoe eto chto to umet, i ne prosto umet, a lucse vsex ostalnyx. Togda dengi ne problema, ix nuzhno tolko vziat.)

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Tom Cruise movie in order, I come to The Color Of Money (1986)Plot In A Paragraph: Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) teaches Vincent (Tom Cruise) a immensely talented but cocky protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.After the mega commercial Top Gun, Cruise switched it up, with this more serious effort, teaming up with two legends of the industry in Newman and director Martin Scorsese. You have to admire how Cruise went from the youthful appeal of Risky Business and the commercial appeal of Top Gun to working with Paul Newman and Martin Scorsese.Personally, whilst I enjoy this movie, I do not watch it often. I think it's far from the best work of any of the talent involved, but it is an enjoyable movie. Newman deservedly won the Oscar and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio lights up the screen. If anything Cruise's Vincent is a little over shadowed at times. Again, like in Top Gun, his character is cocky, but this time it's mixed with arrogance, and his character isn't really likable. The Color Of Money grossed $52 million at the domestic box office, to end the year the 12th highest grossing movie of 1986.

Red-Barracuda This sequel to The Hustler (1961) was directed by Martin Scorsese. It's not necessarily the most typical type of film you may expect from him. It was in fact one that he did for the studio and was not one of his more personal efforts. By working on a commercial project like this, Scorsese then had leeway to make his next film, the ultra-personal and controversial The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). Consequently, because this wasn't material he was fully passionate about, it's not so surprising that this isn't amongst his best work. That said it is still a good film. Scorsese still manages to employ much of his typical energetic style into the flow of things, making even the game of pool pretty dynamic to watch.The film is maybe even better known for its acting though, with Paul Newman returning to play an older version of the character Fast Eddie Felson who last appeared in The Hustler twenty-five years previously. His character now manages young hustlers like he once was and, in doing so, takes a huge slice of their winnings. It's a role-reversal for the character and Newman is once again very good, although despite the Oscar win, he was even better in The Hustler. Tom Cruise plays off him as the cocky youngster in a type of role that we've seen him perform many times in fairness. He is good enough though and the two actors do work off each other well. The dynamic between them is reasonably predictable to an extent with a plot arc where their relationship starts off shaky, gets worse then finally clicks. But, off course, success breeds complications. Events do ultimately reach an unusual and ambiguous conclusion, which I wasn't too sure about personally but at least it ended things on a less obvious note.

krycek19 I can't believe this snooze-fest is actually made by Martin Scorsese of all people.It's about people playing pool for money in bars and in actual official tournaments as if it was baseball.You think it sounds boring? Watching paint dry would be more exciting.Nothing happens for an hour and a half. All the characters are unlikeable and the performances are awful and the actors seemed as bored as the audience. The only thing about the movie that was enjoyable was Tom Cruises ridiculous hair and his even worse clothes.I don't care if Paul Newman was one of those great actors from the good old days. And I don't care if Scorse made Cape Fear (his masterpiece) 5 years later. Both Newman and Scorsese suck with this movie.And to make it worse I hate Mary Elizxabeth Mastrantonio. The woman with the most ridiculous last name whose career ended sometime after The Abyss.Avoid this stinker. Especially if you like Tom Cruise.