"American Made" (movie critique)

AMERICAN MADE
movie poster

One of the Movie Mavens suggested we see the new Tom Cruise movie, "American Made".  So the group met at the local multiplex for the early showing. It was entertaining and based on true events but hits just the surface of the real life story and adventures of Barry Seal.

 As a fan of the vintage 80's TV series,"Miami Vice", "Crockett" and "Tubbs" were always fighting and taking down the drug dealers in Miami. This movie reveals how the influx of the drug trade made such am impact on the culture at the time.

A synopsis from the internet of the film is as follows:

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 operations in the history of the United States. The operation spawns the birth of the Medellin cartel and almost brings down the Reagan White House.

If you are a certain age you will remember the headlines and hearings about the Sandinistas, The Iran-Contra affair, and Colonel Oliver North.  They are all part of this storyline. Colombian bad guy Pablo Escobar, is also featured in the movie

CAST:

Tom Cruise
Barry Seal

Sarah Wright
Lucy Seal

Caleb Landry Jones
JB

Domhnall Gleeson
Schafer (CIA)

Robert Farrior
Oliver North

Mauricio Mejia
Pablo Escobar

The Travelling Toe awards this movie 2 middle toes up with your own bullet proof vest, because if you double cross the Colombian drug cartels you will need all the protection you can get!!