Storyline
The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
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Cast
Caleb Landry Jones, Tom Cruise, Benito Martinez, Jesse Plemons, Mike Pniewski, Robert Farrior, Sharon Conley, E. Roger Mitchell, Lara Grice, Kayla Perkins, Domhnall Gleeson, Jayma Mays, Marcus Hester, Sarah Wright, Mickey Sumner, Jed Rees, Maria Howell, Scott Poythress, Chris Gann, DeVere Jehl, Robert Pralgo, April Billingsley, Leon Lamar, Lola Kirke, Alex Collins, Ronald Reagan, Michael Mercaldi, Jayson Warner Smith, Kevin L. Johnson, Morgan Hinkleman, Frank Licari, Patti Schellhaas, William Mark McCullough, Justice Leak, Connor Trinneer, Lauren Revard, Lauren Boyd, Nancy Reagan, Daniel Lugo, Daniel Thomas May, Alejandro Edda, Mauricio Mejía, Courtney Lakin, Fredy Yate Escobar, Alberto Ospino, Felipe Bernedette, Alpha Trivette, Emilio Sierra, Darla Delgado, Chloe Swan Sparwath, Alex Quarles, Trip McCarthy, Zachary Powell
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Reviews
80
Cruise is on top form in a based-on-fact thriller that overcomes its familiar trappings with audacious details and flat-out pacing.
80
Empire
Cruise is as compelling as ever with charm to spare, and this is a ceaselessly entertaining, sometimes tense romp. Although it doesn’t dig much below the surface.
75
The film has just about enough going on around its anti-hero to sustain the interest and land its punchline, and there are signs Liman (a Cruise veteran since “Edge of Tomorrow”) is solving the enduring problem of making a Cruise film that’s not wholly about its leading man.
70
A sweat-slicked, exhausting but glibly entertaining escapade on its own terms, American Made is more interesting as a showcase for the dateless elasticity of Cruise’s star power. It feels, for better or worse, like a film he could have made at almost any point in the last 30 years.
70
It’s a breezy trip for the star, making ample use of his usual charisma, urgency, grin and gift of the gab, though the late ’70s/early ’80s-set film doesn’t completely hit the mark.
