Director Doug Liman
Starring Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright
Rated MA
Score 4.5/6

The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.

When approaching a movie like this it’s a good idea to approach it with a degree of scepticism because there is no telling how much of the story has been put through the Hollywood machine so that the story can be told in the confine of two hours, though it is a hell of a lot easier to seat back and treat this like an original screenplay. All scepticism aside even if the producers where accurate with a third of Barry Seal’s life, he lead an amazing life.
This is the second time that Liman and Cruise have worked together. The flying sequences in American Made where stunning and where another entry in the long list of Tom Cruise’s stunt work. Cruise gave the kind of performance that you would expect from him and I liked Domhnall Gleeson’s performance as ‘Schafer’. Domhnall Gleeson doesn’t attract me to a movie based on his name alone because I am not overly familiar with his work, I think of him as a pleasant ‘oh wait, what’s his name’ kind of actor. It was an interesting move by the filmmakers to use the retro studio logos and the retro fonts for the onscreen place names. I loved how Seal seemed to have the ability to be in the right place and the right time, I suppose in a cinematic sense this could be described as ‘Forest Gump’ factor.