The Color of Money: Underrated Tom Cruise Classic?

In 1986, Tom Cruise was on Top of the world. Top Gun had come out and become the biggest movie of the year, minting him as a bonafide superstar. However, Cruise had bigger ambitions beyond being an action hero or hearthrob. He wanted to be a legitimate, respected actor, so before Top Gun ever hit theaters, he had already wrapped a role where he’d play opposite one of the biggest movies stars of all time - Paul Newman - whose career Cruise would likely want to emulate as the older actor was able to find the perfect balance between art and commerce, while never sacrificing his brand as a star. Their movie together - The Color of Money - would go on to be a highlight of both’s filmographies, and a notable gritty effort that paired them both, for the only time, with the great Martin Scorsese.
Do you think Color of Money is a classic? Let us know in the comments!
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[@SoCloseToToast]

Something about this movie is just so rewatchable! Amazing tension built and just great acting

[@WilliamAGould]

The cast were at the top of their game and they were clearly having fun making the film. The audience could sense that.

[@hagestad]

You must not have played pool much. Their pool acting game/technique is terrible. But its usually like that in sequels. Original The Hustler was better.

[@sitebstudios]

This is an underrated Scorsese classic. With outstanding performances from every actor, including Tom Cruise and Paul Newman (who won an Oscar for his performance.)

[@Revolver1981]

It's not one of Scorsese's best. THAT'S FOR SURE!!!

[@shawn86x]

100% this is one of my favorite Scorsese flims but another unrated scorsese movie would be bringing out the dead

[@rosemaryfarell5264]

As Great as Newman was here,Bob Hoskins was ROBBED of the OSCAR that Year!!!!

[@lexkanyima2195]

@@rosemaryfarell5264 why ?

[@rosemaryfarell5264]

@@lexkanyima2195 why cos his was a better performance thats why.

[@enderjed]

Paul Newman finally won his Oscar for this, though it's more of a lifetime achievement award. He was brutally snubbed the previous year for his amazing performance in the forgotten classic The Verdict

[@thepayne7862]

The Verdict was a great movie, I can't really think of too many bad Paul Newman movies.

[@simonkevnorris]

I agree - The Verdict is a movie I watch regularly.

[@thepayne7862]

@@simonkevnorris Another great Newman movie is Absence of Malice, and should be watched by anyone that wants to go into journalism.

[@simonkevnorris]

@@thepayne7862 I agree - excellent performance by Paul Newman and Sally Field. Wilfred Brimley is also worth a watch.

[@spaceodds1985]

He got the award over Bob Hoskins for Mona Lisa… Hoskins should have won.

[@richg4189]

Let's not overlook the incredible performance by Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio. Oscar nominated and perfect compliment to Vince

[@Miller1989]

Absolutely love Paul Newman. Good actor, great man. Seeing an older Paul with young buck Tom Cruise is seeing two different generations of movie stars overlap. Love this movie.

[@lexkanyima2195]

Actually Cruise was born a year after the original movie came out

[@chewynewyork6388]

Hard to express how quickly I would be in a theater to watch a sequel to The Color of Money, def one of my all-time favorite movies. The whole thing holds up so well. I agree that having Scorsese behind the camera would be super long-shot, but we can, indeed, hope.

[@EasyGoer-e3z]

Great Story/Storyline...Great Actors and Performances...Good Soundtrack...Many Good Scenes...Fantastic Ending...Not Sure Why Many Critics Trashed This Movie...The Hustler is a Hard Act to Follow But The Color of Money is a VERY Watchable Movie

[@BeersAndBeatsPDX]

Most importantly it's what gave Doom it's iconic name.

[@nikkingman]

Good game, good game.

[@ramiyohay7286]

Man, the amount of times I watched this movie...

[@jothishprabu8]

I love this film so much !!!! The pool game scenes are directed immaculately.

[@bigneon_glitter]

_The Color Of Money_ is a perfect film. Eminently rewatchable. Richard Price's script is a 💎. Tom Cruise is, today, the same age Paul Newman was in 1986. _Top Gun: Maverick_ is Cruise's _The Color Of Money._

[@lexkanyima2195]

This is a sequel

[@kennethmatthewn.tabbilos1584]

@@lexkanyima2195 so is Top Gun: Maverick bro

[@bhekuyisembhele4940]

"The Color of Money" is my 2nd favourite Scorsese film behind "Casino". I'm glad it's covered, and appreciated here.

[@bunnyofdoom4501]

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. -Fast Eddy Great vid

[@shotakuervo]

Great line, also love at the end when Vincent throws the money on the table and says "Stings like a B*tch"

[@bunnyofdoom4501]

@@shotakuervo ❤️

[@FCSchaefer]

It's incredibly underrated, even by Scorsese fans. Both Newman and Cruise are on fire in this one.

[@trinaq]

I liked this movie, it's a brilliant young performance from Cruise, plus it nabbed Paul Newman an Oscar!

[@MrJohnnycage1985]

What a great movie. When I was younger, I was Vince. Wild, can't do no wrong, just had IT! As I watched this movie many years later, I'm Fast Eddie Felson. Being obsessed about the game and the culture, and having that be a huge part of my early life. When you can take money off a man and make him like it, then you have found the way of a true hustler.

[@WPGinterceptor460Interceptor]

06:45 yesss, Ive said this for years...Scorsese.. you need to make a sequel to this now.. an Older Vincent!!! know what i mean ;)

[@seereadnhear]

One of my favorite Martin Scorsese films. Also responsible for finally giving the Oscar to call me after many other nominations before.

[@jooger69]

The funny thing is that Tom Cruise is now the same age as Paul Newman was when filming Color of Money.

[@Rlrlrl1962]

What he(Tom) looks much younger !

[@Mayor_Of_Eureka17]

You can just tell who is gonna be your narrator by the types of actors or films are in the thumbnail. Very diverse personalities over there . Good stuff.

[@gutz1981]

When they showed a pool game being played in Top Gun Maverick and Tom Cruise was sitting close by in the bar, I so wanted just a hint of some COM to show up, with Maverick picking up a cue and making at least one shot.

[@chriswilson3126]

Completely forgot about this movie! I caught it late on TV one time and thought it was great. Agreed its underrated for both Cruise and Newman. Time to check it out again.

[@timreeves8937]

Fun fact- the guy who wrote The Hustler, that this was the sequel to, also wrote the Queens Gambit, that was on Netflix and was great, sixty years apart.

[@DLIMAC70]

I've seen it a thousand times along with "The Hustler" and I always find something new with each viewing. Two of my favorite films

[@motherplayer]

Again, thought back to this movie when I first heard of "Top Gun: Maverick". My first thought was seeing how Tom now occupies the role of teacher the same way Paul Newman did going to this from "The Hustler".

[@robhoppe9189]

Damn, a follow up sequel to this classic world be so dope!!!

[@bonghunezhou5051]

If this film (a sequel, btw) were made today, it would have been shuffled off to a *streaming* or *pov* platform. These days Cruise just specializes in action films - not that there is anything wrong with that.

[@zimecka72]

This film is one of my all-time favourites. Thanks for covering it!

[@adamperkins3769]

100% my favorite movie. I hadn’t thought of a sequel but I would jump out of my chair if it happened.

[@vincentsolis5149]

I want a Top Gun like sequel for this too with an aged Cruise. No one else is asking for it though

[@JoeFiorelloFilms]

I remember seeing this as a kid with my whole family. Afterward my cousins and I were all grabbing anything we could get our hands on that could double for a pool cue and twirling them around like Tom Cruise did.

[@TheNameisPlissken1981]

The one problem with a sequel is that there's no young actor working in Hollywood today that could be paired with Cruise like he was with Newman and Newman was with Gleason.

[@lexkanyima2195]

well you need to connect to inspire each other.

[@jlobiafra]

Do you know every actor in Hollywood? That's a ridiculous statement. There's probably hundreds of established actors and unknown actors that could pull it off

[@danbollinger9372]

Great movie. Glad to see it getting some love. One problem with this video is the background music. It’s so loud it almost drowns out the commentary. Please tone it down for your future videos.

[@EasyGoer-e3z]

If We Wanted to Hear Music We Would Go Listen to Music...Youre Absolutely Right

[@tbc9096]

It had its good moments but it wasn’t near the same league as The Hustler. On the other hand, Paul Newman looks complete with the mustache.

[@tapeit8135]

I agree I just watched the hustler again last week. The hustler is way better than the color of but color is very good.

[@jamesm2078]

Haven’t heard of this until now and added it to my watchlist!

[@RedSpartan32]

A friend of mine has known Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio for her entire career. She said Mary said that Paul Newman was an absolute gentleman and incredible actor, but whenever he would look at her with those blue eyes, she would completely melt. I can totally understand. Lol.

[@lexkanyima2195]

Newman is a hottie

[@jlobiafra]

You should get your friend to ask her what she was thinking when she had that fro in scarface

[@CoreyRossArt]

a sequel with Tom n Forrest. Maaaaan

[@DelightLovesMovies]

I just saw the Color of Money a few weeks ago. Very good film.

[@sanjubajaj229]

Definitely deserves a sequel. Wondering who could play the protege in the new one? Would be cool to maybe have the older Vince mentor the son or daughter of Amos, the guy who hustled Eddie played by Forrest Whitaker. What say?

[@EasyGoer-e3z]

Anything With Forest Whitaker and im Sold

[@kowalski5599]

Definitely room for a legacy sequel for The Color of Money. I've said it for years. It would be nice to see Vince come back as the veteran pool player. Not sure who the new guy could be. Could even have Forest Whitaker come back as well. "You a hustler, Amos?" Scorsese could direct, but, I'd rather see him take on something else with his time. So he's welcome, but not integral. Maybe get dude who directed Hell Or High Water (not Taylor Sheridan, he only wrote it, but the McKenzie guy)

[@azohundred1353]

No, this is a Paul Newman classic, with all due respect to Tom Cruise. It's a sequel to another Paul Newman classic from 1961, The Hustler and that's a must see if you haven't seen it. The Hustler is a Top 10 favorite film of mine, and The Color Of Money was a very good sequel, Martin Scorsese was able to continue the story of Fast Eddie Felson and Paul Newman deservedly won the Oscar for Best Actor for it(in all honesty. He should won at least one decades before. But glad he finally got it for a great performance of one of his most famous characters).

[@lexkanyima2195]

But it is long overdue to have recognition

[@EasyGoer-e3z]

Paul Newman Was Effortless in The Color of Money....What a Legend!!

[@StigmaX]

Tom Cruise knows where Shelly Miscavige is. He's totally complicit.

[@tomhahnl1927]

Definitely underrated, this is a great movie! Didn't know it was filmed before TopGun!

[@AverageJoeGuitarPlayer]

Yes m. That’s what I’ve been saying. Would love to see Vince as the stake horse.

[@gamehulk]

* sledgehammer. Vince has a sledgehammer break, not a shotgun break ;) Ha, I just go to the part where you said "When The Color of Money was cast, Tom Cruise hadn't come out" 😂

[@SuperWIDEgaming]

Underated Paul Newman classic.

[@adamcade604]

Easily Scorsese's most underrated Movie!

[@filmbuff2777]

That would be something like Kundun, actually.

[@SugarJRay]

The best pool movie ever made, Poolhall Junkies is up there too.

[@jlobiafra]

The Hustler is way better than both. Pool hall junkies was very unrealistic

[@virgil3241]

Its a good movie and have watched it many times. Is it great, maybe. But I have rewatched it a lot over the years. Got my 20 year old son to watch it, and he really liked it. In the same week we watched the Sting as well, because he liked the actor Paul Newman from Butch Cassidy and this one.

[@JK_Clark]

The Sting is an excellent, very memorable and worthy classic!

[@alba4203]

È bellissimo.grande Paul newman.martin Scorsese è uno dei Grandi e si sa Tom Cruise è Tom Cruise e il film è bello tanto

[@MoarRushPl0x]

A sequel sounds nice. I would definitely watch that.

[@willgriff]

Yes most definitely when Tom Cruise embraces the gray hair we need to see him make a third to this

[@gm95265]

Big fan of Cruise also but this is Newmans movie. One of my favourites.

[@carncats07]

It's not necessarily a movie that Tom Cruise is remembered for, but it's my personal favourite along with Eyes Wide Shut.

[@jliller]

A legacy sequel would be interesting because it would show again how billiards culture has changed from the 1980s, as this movie showed how it changed from the 1960s. Here's an idea for the new movie: after the events of "Color of Money" Carmen left him for a bigger score and Vincent drifted away from hustling to just being a great a pool player. In present day he sees a young player who reminds him of how he was back in the 1980s: cocky and showy, but talented. Vincent takes the youngster under his wing, not to hustle but to live vicariously mentoring the youngster to become the respectable professional pool player Vincent never got to be.

[@FrederickLopez]

Easily an underrated Tom Cruise classic and Scorsese film. A fantastic sequel to The Hustler and Paul Newman is once again fantastic as Fast Eddy. That werewolves of London scene is iconic. An early legacy sequel and it's interesting to see Tom Cruise do the same with his reprisal in Top Gun: Maverick.

[@deadeyedmillennialmedia]

I've always viewed Poolhall Junkies as a spiritual sequel to this.

[@mra682]

Hustler is a great full film to watch before color of money.

[@JK_Clark]

'Top Money: Maverick of Pool' was okay; it suited Tom and Paul's ages very well and having the two stars play off each other made for great marketing.

[@AnonymousAccount514]

You guys should do Born On The 4th of July

[@unfazedreview3000]

One of our favorites

[@MrBdiddypop]

Paul Newman…. I cannot think of a cooler looking older men than him in this movie.

[@SUK2293]

One of Scorsese's best 'crowd pleasers', certainly a better film and character study than the convoluted Departed.

[@greendro6410]

This really was an underrated Martin Scorsese classic film.

[@AussieRoos]

Tom’s Hair 🕶️

[@asifkhan4822]

A very underrated Tom Cruise/ Paul Newman classic, it is very interesting to note how Cruise has copied Newman in playing the old protege in the sequel ( which he would mirror in Top Gun Maverick) to the original where he was formerly the young hotshot. 9:16

[@shinola]

This is an amazing movie, which has aged amazingly well (as long as you don’t pay attention to Paul Newman’s extremely mediocre pool technique).

[@KenAdams426]

I think The Sting could get remade today with an even bigger con available.

[@thegsk]

The movie that gave us DOOM.... nuff said.

[@methanoid]

Went to see this on release in cinemas. We all came out and immediately called the film The Color of Boredom. It was so dull.

[@bobcharlotte8724]

OMGGG A LEGACY SEQUEL!!! YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!

[@PatTheBatmanFan]

It’s in the way that you watch it.

[@angelthman1659]

"Underrated Tom Cruise Classic?" No! Underrated Paul Newman Classic.

[@Sciolist]

Occasionally background music is drowning narration.

[@bennetfox]

As awesome as a sequel to this movie would be, unfortunately the world of pool has dried up like FM radio. Nobody shoots pool anymore and FM radio is a vast wasteland of syndication and automation.

[@SirTyJensen]

Money was good, I just seen it.

[@JohnS-il1dr]

The ending sucked. It would be cool if Eddie all along hustled Vince even setting up Vince to watch Eddie fake losing against Forrest Wittackers character.

[@mikekoops1767]

A look at "The Sting" would be an appreciated watch. Wonderful Newman movie. Unfortunately the sequel sucked eggs all day long.

[@laurencelikestopgun]

It is interesting that Cruise and Scorsese never work with each other again (Fun Fact: TC was considered for Henry Hills in the Goodfellas). I can see an alternative world where there's a 90's version of Leo/Scorses but with Cruise instead

[@Kiárán92]

The only thing I don’t like about this movie, is the super, SUPER! Underwhelming ending. Your presented with this big scene, then just ends. Annoying.

[@erikklein7618]

Paul Newman was one of the most handsome men in history and I'm a hetero male

[@RRL110]

I saw this when it came out. Tried watching it again recently and it feels dated. Also Cruise seems over the top, I would have cast someone else. He also doesn't really fit with Mastrantonio. She seemed to old for him, no chemistry. I think it would have been a better film with someone else in the Cruise roll. I could see that guy from Eddie and the Cruisers doing the role. Cruise seems to much like a kid, maybe its that stupid high pitched voice of his. When he gets pissed on camera its just laughable.

[@1975KyleDavid]

I miss Paul Newman. He was a great actor! His generation was a different genre of acting. Cruise is of a dying generation, too; his generation has made several great movies that were original plots. Today's generation is full of Woke bullzhit that makes modern movies unimpressive.

[@CarSVernon]

no i found it pretty boring, mary elizabeth mastrantonio is a standout otherwise.

[@rumblewolf2999]

To hell with Scorsese. Sequel with Cruise, yes. Scorsese, no. The Irishman was terrible. Let someone else helm the ship for another one. It'll never happen though...billiards is almost nonexistent, and Hollywood has changed.

[@etangbose4755]

He made 1 movie you dont like? What about all the classics he made

[@filmbuff2777]

The Color of Money is a lesser Scorsese, but still rather enjoyable. I'd still take a lesser Scorsese over almost anything directed by the extremely overrated Ridley Scott.

[@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat]

You're dumber than 💩

[@robertodell3056]

Paul Newman was awesome as usual. Tom Cruise couldn't act his way out of a used condom

[@sirtalkalotdoolittle]

No.

[@BMWLDRider]

Music is annoying

[@anthonycerulli1423]

Meh. It was fine

[@donna25871]

No one is interested in Tom Cruise films anymore.

[@etangbose4755]

Mission impossible fallout made so much money and is critically acclaimed.

[@alba4203]

Rip Paul Newman

[@pjchj3599]

Super underrated Cruise movie

[@jamesbond5174]

Underrated by who? Not me that's for sure

[@suicidaltendencies99]

Fast eddies is now a hamburger joint in freo