a5c7b9f00b 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.
In 1978, the skilled and ambitious TWA pilot Barry Seal smuggles Cuban cigars to increase his income. Out of the blue, he is contacted by the CIA agent Monty Schafer, who asks him to work for the CIA photographing facilities over Central America using a state-of-art small plane. Soon Barry contacts General Noriegaa courier for the CIA and is contacted by the Medellin Cartel that wants him to transport drugs to the USA. Then Schafer asks Barry to carry weapons for the Contras in Nicaragua. Barry invites pilots that are his friends and plots routes to smuggle drugs for the cartel. The CIA closes eyes to the scheme and Barry becomes richer and richer. He uses the Arkansas town Mena to launder his money. But the DEA and the FBI are tracking him down. When the CIA shuts down the scheme, Barry is left alone and arrested by the agencies. What will happen to his family and him?
I entered the movie theatre expecting movie similar to the Wolf of Wall Street, American Gangster, Lord Of War etc. These are landmark films, which have developed a cult following over time. It did help that the movie starred international Superstar Tom Cruise - a star renowned for his action flicks. We were expecting a high dose of action & drama. Biopics have a good chance of succeeding if a lot of time has been devoted to researching the principal character & having a tight script in place.The makers have devoted good amount of time researching the life of Barry Seal - the CIA agent, who also ferried cocaine for the Medellin cartel of Pablo Escobar & it shows. But they falter in scripting the life journey of Barry Seal. Although a lot of exciting things may have happened during the life & times of Barry Seal, it is not shown in a manner which excites the audience. It feels more like a plain jane reportage of the events that happened in Barry Seal's life. The director has to be blamed for not building up the excitement like Martin Scorcese did in Wolf Of Wall Street or the way Lord Of War starring Nicholas Cage was made. The film does show a lot of improvement in the second half. It is one of the movies which has a better second half. The second half feels a tad bit similar to Lord Of War, but it still does keep you engrossed till the end. Tom Cruise is convincing in his role. We were a bit let down by the character playing Pablo Escobar. Netflix has set the benchmark for how the legendary Medellin drug cartel boss has to be portrayed. You expect Pablo Escobar to be a menacing character who very mention makes people shudder. But the guy playing Pablo in this movie seems like a caricature of the Netflix version. The makers probably did not want the attention to shift away from Tom Cruise! We weren't bored while watching the movie, but the movie lacked the adrenaline inducing, end of the seat ride that other aforementioned movies in the genre offer. A lot of people will probably will watch the movie, but what could have been an Oscar winning performance by Cruise is reduced to just another caper.
Based on a true story covering the Carter years to the Reagan/Bush administration. Barry Seal (Tom Cruise) is a TWA pilot who in '78 supplements his income with a pickup and delivery service bringing in Cuban cigars via a Canadian connection. He catches the eye of the CIA who enlist him to take recce photos for them out of a shell corp., flying a hot twin-engine plane. Sure enough, he ends up supplementing his income again, heavier drugs this time, a regular trifecta of arms, drugs and currency on the behest of the CIA. He's "protected" by a crucifix dangling from his dash.<br/><br/>He'd do better to heed (Sirach 9:13) "Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill; so shalt thou not doubt the fear of death: and if thou come unto him, make no fault, lest he take away thy life presently: remember that thou goest in the midst of snares, and that thou walkest upon the battlements of the city." If he gets on the wrong side of some drug pooh bah, it's the final curtain, and prison would make him a sitting duck. His brother-in-law JB (Caleb Landry Jones) is not trusted by the cartel to keep silence once he learns too much. Seal flies an intricate pattern to avoid getting snared by law enforcement, per CIA intel. And in the end he fears to start is car—kaboom!<br/><br/>"American Made" opens at the Baton Rouge airport with a loudspeaker advising that a good place for history buffs is Louisiana. The average Joe will know that Thomas Jefferson wrote all men are created equal and that a later civil rights movement capitalized on the neglected equality of the Negro. History buffs, how­ever, familiar with the Louisiana debates will be aware that "Negro equality" never came up when Congress went over the slavery issue upon admitting Louisiana to the Union. People back then just didn't think in those terms. The Declaration of Independence was but an experiment in whether shop­keepers could run the government.<br/><br/>Sacred history addresses the other in the uniquely favored Noah who escaped a world-killing deluge, with his family. Seal was favored by the CIA and he packed off his family to settle in Mena, Arkansas and raise horses. (Gen. 9:18) "And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan." From Shem came the Semites, here via a British/American connection represented by Barry. Japheth (meaning enlarged—they settled every­where) are the Central Americans in this movie. Ham (the father of Canaan) through his son Cush (means black, settled in Africa) is represented in the movie by JB who doesn't get the family wealth but is given menial work. Ham's offspring were given a sentence of servitude on account of bringing into the post-flood world the wicked thoughts and violent deeds that got the old one drowned. JB also has a flourishing history of bad language and a record of two felonies. He is not a sympathetic character.<br/><br/>The actual prophesy is (Gen. 9 :27) "God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant." The Contras had a training camp on Barry's land, i.e. dwelling in the tents of Shem. The blacks in the movie served: a black DEA agent doing the drudge work following a money trail, and two colored boys offering parking of a hot plane in their yard, and a bike for a get­away. Lucy Seal (Sarah Wright), wife of Barry, escaped DEA confiscation with only what jewelry and fur coat she wore on her body. Noah escaped the judgment of being a drunken bum only by virtue of the covering his two sons Shem and Japheth gave him, Ham having mocked his father's nakedness, whence the judgment against Ham's offspring.<br/><br/>The above was for the benefit of the history buffs; it might sail over the heads of everyone else—sorry. What is explicitly explained, though, is the Contra-weapons-drugs-money-Sandinista (illegal) connection, with a hint of an Iran-Contra scandal to come, and a mention of the CIA trafficking drugs during the Vietnam fiasco. America is portrayedboth a land of opportunitywella land of some illegal shenanigans, though, surprisingly a relatively benign form of Negro slaveryjustified by a Christian country is brushed aside by some historical bench­marks. The Confederate battle flag is proudly displayed in the South in the movie. The smuggled Cuban smokes is not condemned—people need their cigars. Virginia—where Robert E. Lee hails from—only imported slaves from the Caribbean—not from the brutal African trade—and then only to harvest their tobacco when there weren't enough laborers otherwise.<br/><br/>This movie portrays America with its warts of drug/arms trafficking, but it doesn't get all bent out of shape over the past slavery issue. I was of draft eligible age during the Vietnam War and didn't like what was going on with us there, so I have particular objections to what the CIA continued to do,portrayed here. Never­the­less, I figured that if Barry could remain patriotic till his dying breath, after being used by his government, I can feel patriotic, too. This might be just me, a creature of contradictions at times, but the movie has the potential of inspiring good feelings for a flawed country. The LA history lesson is a bit obscure, except for history buffs, so I figure it's just history reasserting itself through an artist's open imagination, after being twisted by contemporary politics.<br/><br/>The plot was easy to follow. The American "good guys" were easy to root for even when they were technically on the wrong side of the law. Oh, well, some movies succeed despite inherit contradictions. Tom Cruise did well in his part of a regular guy getting in too deep. There were some great flight scenes.
Cruise rides the Breaking Bad and Narcos train, only notwelleither.

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