"American made"
Watched English movie "American made".
This film is directed by Doug Liman. Written by Gary Spinelli. Produced by Brian Grazer and others. Music by Christophe Beck. Cinematography Cesar Charlone. The film features Tom Cruise, Sarah Wright, Domhnall Gleeson, Alejandro Edda, Mauricio Mejia, Benito Martinez, Caleb Landry Jones, Jesse Plemons. The film runs for about 1 hour 55 minutes and was released in 2017. I watched it on Amazon Prime on 1st Oct 2022. This movie is based on the true story of Barry Seals.
Tom is a commercial pilot. One day a CIA agent approaches him and recruits him to fly over Central and South America to take pictures of the rebels. He achieves instant success. Colombian drug cartel led by Pablo Escobar recruits him to fly drugs back to America in his return sorties. He starts making a lot of money. Drugs are followed by guns. He doesn’t know where to keep his money. Then he is arrested.
Tom Cruise plays the excellent pilot who learns to get the job done and deliver. His fortunes swing from one end to other and then back. He uses his knowledge, his skills and his contacts to build an empire. Tom plays the character well. He shows the confident, easy going, worried and eventually resigned pilot well. Sarah Wright plays his wife. Domhnall Gleeson plays the CIA agent who uses Tom. Alejandro Edda plays Ochoa and Mauricio Mejia plays Escobar, the drug lords.
The story of the movie is not gripping. It may also be because it is based on a true story. So you get a feel of watching a documentary more than a movie. It looks like collection of events rather than a homogenous offering.
The film grossed almost three times its production cost on box office, so it was a commercial success.
Positives: His ideas.
Negatives: Not a homogenous offering.
Not a must watch.
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