American Made

Plot: Pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise) gets a job flying for the CIA in Central America and Columbia; he takes aerial pictures, smuggles guns, and also smuggles drugs back into the US on the side. Meanwhile he is raising his kids at home in Arkansas, and trying to find a place to stash all the cash. He gets involved with Reagan's war against Nicaragua's General Noriega, and a complicated deal to help the Contra's while smuggle cocaine into the US for the Medellin drug cartel. Soon the DEA track him down, but the CIA gets him off. This goes on for a while until it all comes crashing down.  [imdb]    [photos]

Review: American Made is a fun. It has a light-hearted and Tom Cruise is cheerful and likable as the anti-hero Barry Seal. The story is unlikely, but the most unbelievable parts are completely true.

Good performance by Tom Cruise. The script is well written and the direction has a keeps it light. 

Cast: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sara Wright

Directed by: Doug Liman

Written by: Gary Spinelli

The Music: .A spectrum of 80's music from pop classical to country, backstopped by zippy orchestral music from Christophe Beck

The Visuals: Good flying shots. 

Rating: 3.0 stars: Fun to watch, and a true story. Kinda glorifies crime

More: They really shot those jungle scenes in the jungle. Sadly,someone died during the shooting in a plane crash.

Even More: .Director Liman's father was an investigator in the Iran-Contra Affair.

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