A great film & one of Cruise's best performances, American Made is darkly funny, wild & wickedly entertaining.

An under the radar Cruise film and epic true story

perfect movie everything just hits right. you will not realize its over.

Captivating and fluid are the words of this film, you don't get bored or tired at any point, it runs very well in all aspects, you barely stop to think about problems, you just go and enjoy the experience with the great actor who guides the plot.

This is low key underrated film and true story of a charming yet flawed character trying to make his way through an even more twisted world

Pretty entertaining... Tom was fun to watch and makes the movie more enjoyable. They must have really dramatized the reality though. I thought it was pretty unrealistic to have all those bags of money everywhere... among other things... but doesn't matter, a movie is for entertainment. This wasn't a documentary.

"American Made" is based on the true story of Berry Seal, who becomes a mule for both the CIA running guns to Nicaragua, and for the Narcos running Cocaine to America. This is an interesting part of recent American history, but at the end of the film, I find myself asking: what was the point? The movie does a great job of informing its audience about the underhanded details of the operation. It is told from the point of view of Tom Cruise's Berry Seal. The main problem stems from having Berry as the protagonist of the story. A lot of the story he is just kind of going with the flow. CIA tells him to do this, he says "sure". Then the Narcos tell him to do something else, "fine". The focus isn't much on the suspense of him being caught in the crime, it is more on the escapism of imagining having all of this money and not knowing what to do with it. This can be entertaining, but after a while, the novelty wears off. All the actors involved put in a good performance. The movie has good pacing, there doesn't feel like any time is wasted. And it has a unique, dark and cynical sense of humor about the whole thing. A lot of people seem to like it, it just isn't for me. It is entertaining and informative. I simply found myself actively rooting against our main character. Made in the USA...huh, no thank you.

Fun entertaining film showing a different side to the drug trade. I know if the man..interesting story. I found myself falling more after and that’s the best you could ask for. Tom Cruise showing some range

This film is basically fiction only using a name that is real. The facts of the Iran Contra Affair are correct. Almost enjoyed it despite myself.

American made is a great movie of a american history during the cold war it is a very eye opening athought it movie does feel rushed. Tom cruise does a great preformace.

I watched this on DVD recently. It's a fast paced action adventure based on a true story, starring Tom Cruise. Tom is superb, playing airline pilot Barry Seal, who makes a new career working undercover for various US government agencies. Cruise's onscreen charm and charisma are what make this film take off in more ways than one. The story is fascinating to watch, and there is never a dull moment for the viewer. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this and have no problem recommending it.

American Made has a properly entertaining story that manages to overcome Tom Cruise’s at-times cringy performance. I would definitely watch this again.

Charismatic, entertaining, gripping story of true events. What a life!

It certainly is a movie starring Tom Cruise. Director Doug Liman’s historical crime comedy American Made (2017) features Tom Cruise really flying a plane and trying his best to give this generic movie some life and personality. American Made is like if Blow was straightforward without all the emotional connections or if Narcos were stupid. Liman’s direction is very bland and only sometimes amusing. Writer Gary Spinelli writes bare bones caricatures of these real figures from the cartel pilot Barry Seal to the Colombian Cartel leaders. It provides very little detail or perspective and just feels vaguely funny and overall underwhelming, honestly. American Made feels slapped together with hectic, obnoxious cuts from editor Andrew Mondshein. Cinematographer César Charlone frames awkward and amateur shots. Camera operator Christopher TJ McGuire does these annoying crash zooms and wildly whips the camera around. American Made is hands down the worst shot and edited film that Tom Cruise has ever starred in and it’s not even close. It makes Tropic Thunder look like a documentary. Tom Cruise completely carries American Made as the sleazy, stupid, greedy, and gullible pilot Barry Seal, who flew guns for the CIA and drugs for Pablo Escobar’s Colombian Cartel throughout the entire 1980’s. Cruise portrays Seal as a man who will literally do anything he’s told just for cash. He’s a total shyster and liar, who helped get people addicted to all the drugs he brought in, got people killed by the guns he smuggled, and ruined the lives of people around him with his plane smuggling. Domhnall Gleeson is abrupt and blunt as CIA schemer Monty Schafer. He is not great here as his forgettable CIA agent. Sarah Wright is over the top and basic as Lucy Seal. She just feels like she’s here to be eye candy since her character has no personality. She’s just wasted to be Tom Cruise’s inappropriately way too young love interest. Jesse Plemons is funny as the Sheriff Downing, turning a blind eye to the criminal activities in return for gifts and his community getting a financial boost. Caleb Landry Jones is amusing as idiot brother-in-law JB. Alejandro Edda is affable as cartel boss Jorge Ochoa. Everyone else does not matter whatsoever. The overly bright lighting from Kevin Gazdik, Cristen Clark, Killian Clear, and Kelly Clear does not look great. Production designer Dan Weil makes all these scarce sets to just barely make these places look period specific like the props and furniture from set decorator Kelley Burney. Composers Christophe Beck and Michael Paraskevas provide a perfectly acceptable and unremarkable score. Costume designers Jenny Gering and Kym Barrett gives Tom Cruise 80’s outfits that are somewhat fun. In short, I don’t why American Made is 115 minutes, considering it has very little story to tell or scenes of interest. Tom Cruise carries the movie with his charisma.

Watch it. A very good Tom Cruise movie that a lot of people missed.

Players will play. Film represents many portrayals of expectations.

Pretty standard, by the book formula drug runner/CIA stooger movie. Cruise kinda walks through this one with half-hearted effort. Guess he could see it for the level of production it was. No real highs and the lows aren't so bad. 3 stars

It's a pretty poor imitation of Scorsese, mostly because of the overly frantic editing and the fact that we just don't get a good sense of who Barry Seal is.

super fun. great directing and cinema. tom cruise super fun to watch. camerawork great. not exactly accurate to events, but as a movie, really entertaining.

An interesting vision of the life of pilot Barry Seal. It is really worth watching because it shows a really interesting story based on facts in an accessible way. I recommend!