It’s “Blow” and “Air America” and “Narcos” all rolled into one laugh-through-the-grimaces romp, a picture so clever its damning history lesson may be ignored by those who don’t know history, and cannot recognize when it repeats itself. In Barry Seal, Cruise has a real person to bite into, a drawling, unquestioning, self-delusional anti-hero who parlayed gonzo flying skills to an integral role in an anti-communist crusade that devolved into an epic American debacle of The Greed Decade.Īnd he got filthy rich off Medellin drug cartel money in the bargain. “American Made” gives Tom Cruise his “Goodfellas,” and brings Doug “The Bourne Identity” Liman back from the directing wilderness.
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