Critic Reviews
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Variety Staff, Variety
Days of Thunder zigzags between exploiting Cruise's likable grin and charming vulnerability and portraying him as an emotional loser. It's an uncertain and unsatisfying mix.
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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
There are plenty of soulless movies around. What's special about Days of Thunder is that it works overtime trying to convince you it's not one of them.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
In 1990 the people who brought you Top Gun -- Tom Cruise, director Tony Scott, and producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer -- figured out a way to take more of your money, and it involved stock-car racing.
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Janet Maslin, New York Times
It's one thing to market a film solely on the strength of its star. It's quite another to go ahead and make the film that way.
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Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer have raised formula films to a science.
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Cast
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Tom Cruiseas Cole Trickle -
Robert Duvallas Harry Hogge -
Nicole Kidmanas Dr. Claire Lewicki
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Michael Rookeras Rowdy Burns -
Cary Elwesas Russ Wheeler
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