Tom Cruise and Rolex have some history. His characters have worn them—I love the Air-King on Cocktail's Brian Flanagan—and he often sports a Rolex off screen. During his press tour for the new Mission: Impossible movie, Cruise wore a rare Rolex that's extremely hard to acquire. We've got all the eye-popping details. Enjoy your holiday weekend! – Michael Sebastian, editor-in-chief Plus: |
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The actor's latest timepiece isn't just rare—it's made from a meteorite. |
For more than four decades, Tom Cruise has been many things to many people: the brash Navy pilot, the smooth-talking sports agent, the impossible-mission specialist. But one constant has been ticking quietly along with him: his enduring affinity for Rolex. Cruise has long favored the brand both on- and off-screen, using the world's most iconic watchmaker to signal character, status, or simply his own personal taste. In Rain Man (1988), his character, Charlie Babbitt, wore a gold Rolex Day-Date, the kind of watch that says you've made it (or at least want others to think you have). In Cocktail (also 1988) a steel Rolex Air-King played sidekick to his upwardly mobile bartender, Brian Flanagan. |
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Whoever designed the weekend had a drinker in mind. They made one night, Friday, to quickly transition from work to fun. Then Saturday, an entire day to go all-out, with few responsibilities or repercussions the next morning. Finally, Sunday, a so-called "fun day" of rest, recovery, and eliminating the hangover any which way you can—usually by drinking a little more—before Monday rolls around. |
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There's an action sequence in the eighth and final Mission: Impossible movie, Final Reckoning, that is so insane, so flat-out fucking bonkers, that it really has to be seen to be believed. Hell, I've seen it and I still don't believe it. And while writing about the scene in question can't possibly do it justice, I'm going to give it a shot here anyway. It arrives a hair past the film's two-hour mark. By this point in the movie, we've already watched Tom Cruise beat the snot out of a thick-necked henchmen with the help of a medieval-looking meat tenderizer. We've seen him turn Popsicle blue from hypothermia after plunging into the freezing waters of the Bering Sea. And we've witnessed him writhing in agony and passing out from the bends after diving thousands of feet to the ocean floor to retrieve some high-tech whatsit from the bowels of a sunken Russian submarine. In other words, his Ethan Hunt has been put through the wringer ... and, in a way, so have we. But Cruise, God bless him, is saving the best for last. |
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