tom cruise starred in the film vanilla sky
in the 2000s  cruise starred in a number of successful films  including the science fiction thrillers vanilla sky lrb 2001 rrb and minority report lrb 2002 rrb  the epic war film the last samurai lrb 2003 rrb  the crime film collateral lrb 2004 rrb  the science fiction disaster thriller war of the worlds lrb 2005 rrb  and the historical thriller valkyrie lrb 2008 rrb