Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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.

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.

dierregi A classic Cruise film, where Cruise is still an actor more than the archetypal movie star. Cruise plays Brian Flanagan, a greedy youngster just back from the Army, eager to make big money fast in Manhattan. He cannot get a job in advertising or finance for lack of education and he ends up working in a fancy bar. I do not understand why savvy bartender Doug (Brown) would give the job to a guy who does not know how to make a cocktail, but this is one of those stupid plot devices one should not focus on.Doug and Brian make a dynamic bar-tending duo, very popular with customers, but their professional idyll is shattered by a femme fatale, for no other reason than to move the plot forward.Three years later we find Brian bar-tending in Jamaica, saving money to open his own bar, when Doug reappears with his rich bride. How and why Doug found Brian is another question better left unanswered. Brian is busy romancing Jordan, a "poor" artist who happens to be able to afford an exclusive cottage and extended Caribbean holidays (again, better left unanswered).Doug challenges Brian to seduce a rich woman to follow in his footsteps of kept man and cocky Brian obliges. Unfortunately Jordan sees him and is heartbroken. We're supposed to believe that a week of happy frolicking on the beach adds up to a great love story - or maybe they frolicked way longer, but again, how long was Jordan's holiday?The third act takes place in New York, where Jordan ran back and Brian followed with rich lover Bonnie. There the movie looses steam, heading to an extremely predictable ending.One good point of the plot is to show that people can enjoy a good life working a job they love. One bad point is that the cybernetic revolution taking place at the time is completing ignored as a source of wealth. The Brians of the time still followed the credo of "greed is good" of the finance world, while the real revolution took place elsewhereA great soundtrack adds a lot to the plot, which is pretty flawed and filled with holes. Nowadays, it is fashionable to revile the 80s as the decade of greed, shoulders pads and awful haircuts. However, those who lived through it, probably had fun and Cocktail is a classic summer movie, to be enjoyed without reflecting too much - even if only one third actually takes place in summery locations.

eyal-elarar I liked the movie back in the days, it's a summer love film, tom Cruise plays a good roll of a young bar tender and his girl friend as well It's a bit kitschy movie, but great bar-tenders film. good locations in the islands, cool music by the Beach Boys. overall kitschy script but still good. the end is not that happy but decent plot. They don't make catchy movies, It seems they will a make a remake It could be good.