American Made soars high

Rating: Null/10 (8 September 2017)

Tom Cruise stars in this engaging and entertaining film about a TWA pilot who gets involved in smuggling of drugs, transporting rebel fighters and taking photos for intelligence missions. During his dangerous adventures he comes into contact with some notorious drug lords and various levels of law enforcement.
The film starts with a bang and certainly takes you on a fun filled ride, half the time you cannot believe what is happening. Barry Seal's story of huge financial upturn has a tragic demise as most of these stories do. This is because the greed and pursuit of money is too much to resist until its too late. The humor is used well and emerges effortlessly as Barry's journey is bizarre and full of unexpected twists. When you get entangled with Pablo Escobar and the Colombian drug cartel things don't have a happy ending.
This was a well made film with great performances from Tom Cruise and the rest of the cast. The pace, action and intrigue of this film is ongoing and never stops. Barry's world of dangerous flight missions, a loyal and beautiful wife and tons of money will entice and fascinate many. Like a Greek tragedy his rise and fall was well captured on film. The film showed the blurred line between the CIA who initially got Barry involved in this and the Drug lords. We were left wondering who the real criminals were, at the end of the day we are all self- interested parties.
8/10