Tom Cruise and "The Last Samurai" can also be considered to be part of this formula. "Widescreenings" noted that for Tom Cruise's character Daniel Kaffee in "A Few Good Men", "[screenwriter] Aaron Sorkin interestingly takes the opposite approach of "Top Gun", where Cruise also starred as the protagonist. In "Top Gun", Cruise plays Mitchell who is a 'hot shot' military underachiever who makes mistakes because he is trying to outperform his late father. Where Maverick Mitchell needs to rein in the discipline, Daniel Kaffee needs to let it go, finally see what he can do." Sorkin and director Rob Reiner are praised
Obsessed (1992 film) film with "relentlessly tiring (and tiresome) excesses". Tom Ensign of the "Toledo Blade" wrote, "What makes this film work is the reality of the situation." Faye Zuckerman of "The Daily Dispatch" called it a "second-rate "Fatal Attraction"" with a "somewhat effective" performance from Doherty. Obsessed (1992 film) Obsessed is a 1992 television film directed by Jonathan Sanger and written by David Peckinpah. Lorie Brindel is a young marine surveyor who is attracted to older men, including one of her clients, Ed Bledsoe, a much older and twice-divorced man. After some flirting during her assessment of his yacht, they begin to