kengonzalez-89582 Cocktail is a decent movie- nothing special but a nice little diversion. If nothing else a reminder of the type of films the late 80s churned out. Tom Cruise, at the height of his superstardom plays a bartender who is coached by Bryan Brown in the big apple and then relocates to Jamaica. This is a good one time watch (preferably with a drink) and the locations and characters are innocent enough to be enamored with. If you have nothing to do on a lazy afternoon you can slip a disc of Cocktail in your player and get lost in not too heavy handed nostalgia.

arjunflamingfeather Mystery Women are filled in this movie called 'Cocktail' because there are at the bars shoots are inflammable products. 'Flames' between actor and actress are our scenarios to miss 'Tom Cruise' after the movie is over because he has skills near the flammable bottles of alcohol. The movie hosts intense dramatically difficult scenes to Choreograph in the two dimensional world because like a play by Shakespeare the movie has crowds in them. The bars are where 'Tom Cruise' is found; not that we look for him but for his friend who is not in 'flames' with the same girl. Flames are the game that children like us played because girlfriends were not worth having but games during the breaks like destroying a rose by pulling the leafs or petals of the flower one by one gave the count of fiction between boy and girl a meaning. 'Flames' are also the game of matching two people's name together; 'Tom Cruise' for instance with someone like 'Kate Winslet' and finding which letter of the flames does not fall. Love or l the letter brings luck as the end result of that game. Cocktail extremely skillful and stylish: not to be counted with 'Flames'.

Ian I never saw this back in the 80s or ever until now. I thought this was supposed to be good. But I guess people just want to watch Tom Cruise do whatever in his early heydays: Pour some drinks. Drive a race car. Fly a jet. Invest money. Be a lawyer. Get dressed up in uniform. It doesn't matter. People headed to the theaters.Cocktail is about two footloose and fancy-free bartenders have dreams of striking it rich with starting their own bar business and with, of course, the ladies. When the reality and true love hit how much sh_t will hit the fan or how many hearts will be broken and when will actual morals set in? There is double-crossing, sunny Jamaica scenes, damaged friendships and hearts. How will Cruise spin lemons into lemonade this time? This had a very thin as well as telegraphed story arc and bad cinematography. Overall, Cruise is more the movie than the story. I expected better from it.

eyalbenmo Elizabeth shue is wonderful as ever tom cruise great acting and before he got commercial and crazy with Scientology and Bryan Brown makes the movie with unforgettable performance the movie has great script and a moral conclusion that comes to realize that money doesn't matter Miss the 80 movies when they knew how to make great movies with a small budget. And a story line that mean something. although its a romantic comedy it really make you think about what's really important in life and in a funny way I don't understand how stupid movies with stupid scripts that disrespect the viewer intelligence of our time with enormous budget score 8 or 9 and this movie barley 6