Every Tom Cruise Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

Martin Scorsese's sequel to the 1961 classic The Hustler finds Paul Newman on Oscar-winning form as pool player Fast Eddie Felson, who's this time joined by Tom Cruise's hotshot pool prodigy Vincent Lauria.

Cruise is on fiery form as Eddie's rival and protege, playing Vincent as both arrogant, smarmy and altogether energised, and working wonders off a late-career Newman.

The Color of Money is a nostalgic slice of 80s cinema that captures the tone of The Hustler wonderfully, even if the story is fairly low on stakes and high on predictability, and the thing that makes it work as a decent sports drama is the brilliance of Cruise and Newman's chemistry.