American made (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Doug Liman
	Actors: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 28.08.2017, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English version
Synopsis: Barry Seal (Cruise) is a well paid TWA pilot and lives with his wife Lucy (Wright). CIA agent Monty Schafer (Gleeson) recruits him to smuggle drugs and weapons abroad for the U.S. government. Seal has a lot of fun as a pilot via his undercover operations and amasses a fortune in cash when he starts working also for the Colombia's Medellín cartel. Later he gets involved in other scandals of the 80s such as Iran-contra.
Review: For a Tom Cruise movie, this one is not so bad and especially not centered on his ego, apart from several scenes. The story is based on a true story of Barry Seal and therefore the movie goes through most of the conflicts in Central America of the 80s in which all President of the USA involved their services.  And although this sounds good to talk about these organised criminality, but the movie only goes through and make fun of it. It gives even the impression that the whole drug trade from Colombia to North America and the Iran-Contra gate was organised by a small group of persons under their only responsibility. Ok. I guess, this was not the intention of the author who may have tried bringing some fun in this kind of story without loosing the viewers with too much complexity.  Acting is remarkable for Domhnall Gleeson and the multitude of secondary roles, either the other pilots, the people of the Cartel.  But nothing that will remain.
Rating: 4 /10