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- American Made is riddled with flaws in both its storytelling and some of the performances, but that doesn't stop Cruise from smoothing over a lot of the rougher edges and bringing it together with a rip-roaring performance.
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Sep 29, 2017 · The makers of the based-on-a-true-story black comedy "American Made" fail to satisfactorily answer one pressing question: why is CIA operative and Colombia drug-runner Barry Seal's story being told as a movie and not a book?
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Sep 29, 2017 · Barry Seal, a TWA pilot, is recruited by the CIA to provide reconnaissance on the burgeoning communist threat in Central America and soon finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA...
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Thankfully a comedy rather than a documentary, this is a gonzo, ironic barrel roll through the war on drugs and U.S. covert ops in Central America in the '80s. American Made gleefully distorts the facts to entertain, and it succeeds, managing a rare balance of tension and humor.
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American Made Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Colin Biggs Vague Visages. American Made might push Cruise further along his evolution to more interesting,...
Re-teaming with his Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman, American Made is a relentlessly energized and seriously fun examination of the true life story of American Airlines pilot Barry Seal, who gave up his life as an everyday pilot to not only become a CIA recruited pilot delivering messages, guns and various other treats to South American ...
Sep 29, 2017 · It’s rated R. ‘American Made’ review: Tom Cruise has his best role in a while in director Doug Liman’s entertaining true story about the Iran-contra affair.
Sep 28, 2017 · R. 1h 55m. By Manohla Dargis. Sept. 28, 2017. The tagline for “American Made,” a breezily, at times woozily rollicking Tom Cruise vehicle, announces that it is “based on a true lie” — though...
