Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

jamiepaton-33876 American made chooses to go with a kind of light-hearted way to tell the story of drug and arms smuggler and it works incredibly well. This movie gives Tom Cruise one the best roles he's done in a long time. Tom Cruise is perfect in this movie, i is a funny but also fairly dramatic role. When he is smuggling and dealing with the cartel it can be quite funny but also really facinating. I was sitting watching this movie thinking...this really happened, and if this wasn't based on a true story i would never have believed it.The movie goes for a more Documentary feel, with snap zooms and very tight filming and to be honest I think it works well with the movie. Doug Liman and Tom Cruise work incredibly well together and so the camera work and directing is superb and works incredibly well with the movie'stone and premise During the third act, the movie begins to become slightly more dramatic with Barry Seal (Tom Cruise) and his sentancing. After he takes photos of the cartel for the DEA they are publicly released on TV and th cartel finds out and begins to hunt him. This is the part where the film begins to get more serious which is a good thing and a bad thing. The good being, it provides a tense and enthrallinng ending but at the same time is a big contrast from the rest of the movie. I still enjoyed this part of the movie but I wish the transistion between light-hearted and serious was done a little better.The ending was done really well. Throughout the movie we are shown "home videos" of Barry Seal talking to the camera about his experience. In these movies it shows the date of the recordings. This shows that these were recorded after the day of his sentencing, initially making the audience think everything will turn out well for him. The movie then at the end shocked me because of Barry being shot and killed by the cartel. In retrospect I should've saw it coming but it surprised me.The main problem I have with the movie is, it starts off kind of slow. I wasn't really invested until maybe the 30 minute mark. It was a necessary part of the ovie because it shows Barry being approached by the CIA but it could've been made a little bit shorter and a bit more interesting.Overalll, American Made is a brilliant movie that deserves to be viewed

SirBurgh Without spoiling it, this movie attempts to assign a heinous act to Ronald Reagan when he was in no way responsible. I'm not talking about Iran-Contra in general, but watch near the end of the movie the way they try to frame him as a heartless person who puts someone's life in danger. It's BS - he never did that. Read up on the facts of this operation.

grantss 1978. Barry Seal, an airline pilot, is recruited by the CIA to fly special transport missions in Central America. Initially it is a matter of information-for-supplies but ultimately he ends up being a drug transporter for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel and supplying anti-Communist groups, including the Nicaraguan Contras, with weapons.Entertaining. Told in a very light-hearted, fun way it is a roller-coaster ride of humour and action. The humour stems largely from the ineptness and unintended consequences of the actions of the CIA and US government. If told in a more serious way, this would have been a very damning indictment of the US's involvement in Central America in the 1980s, and a powerful examination of how the CIA and US government abuse the loyalty of their own citizens. However, the story is told as a comedy, with absurdity piled upon absurdity, so difficult to believe. Just as well, as, in actual fact, much of what is described is fictional. In particular, the real Barry Seal was hardly a paragon of virtue and only ended up working with the US Government once he was facing jail time.Still, an entertaining story, regardless of its accuracy.

shakercoola American Made bears some similarity to movies like Air America, Catch Me If You Can, and Goodfellas, and other fashionable caper movies. It is a perfect vehicle for Tom Cruise, on whose charisma, smile, and appealing cockiness the movie hinges because we don't get a lot of psychological insight into the character, or learn why he was so determined to make more money than he could spend. Cruise played pilot Bruce Seale to distancing effect. This was well advised because the real protagonist was involved in some egregious criminal activities and the supporting roles don't have much stake in the story. But, this is a movie, and audiences can suspend their judgement when they see government agencies controlling its citizens with ultimatums. All in all, this is a story about one man - a citizen - at the centre of one of the most controversial political scandal of the early 1980s. That is at least interesting.