ThiefHott Too much of everything

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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

skeptic skeptical Wow. What a tale. Is it really true? I have my doubts but, then again, knowing what I do about the Caustic Incompetence Agency, it certainly lies within the realm of the possible. Good performance by Tom Cruise, as always, whose talents have not been tainted by age.

Lee Eisenberg The main thing that I derived from Doug Liman's "American Made" is that these people care about one thing and one thing only: money. Whether it was the Contras, the Colombian drug cartels, or the CIA, they were more interested in getting rich than in fighting. And of course Barry Seal enjoyed raking in the dough (he ended up with more money than he knew what to do with, in fact). There was definitely no morality involved in any of this.I understand that the movie took some artistic license. Even so, it's amazing what the CIA was able to get away with (of course, the fact remains that whoever makes the rules gets to break the rules). The so-called war on drugs was always total baloney. Not the greatest movie, but I recommend it.

Paul Magne Haakonsen I decided to watch this movie because Tom Cruise was in it, but little did I know what I was in for.Now, I can't claim to have much interest in the drug trade history of America, so the story here appealed only very little to me. But I still stuck with the movie to the end.This was nowhere near being one of the best of Tom Cruise movies to be honest. Sure, he was putting on a great performance, but the storyline was just working as an anchor here. I believe that the movie was based on real events, which just didn't help to boost the movie's appeal for me.I will say that they had a fairly good ensemble of acting performers together for the movie, though I didn't even recognize most of them. That was a good thing, because I do like seeing new actors and actresses in movies, as they are not already instantly associated with other movies or roles they have done before.This is the type of movie that you watch once and never again, because it just doesn't have enough contents to support multiple viewings.