Mostly accurate tale of the drug smuggler from Baton Rouge.

Rating: Null/10 (25 March 2018)

My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our local library. We have loose connections in that my wife worked in Baton Rouge when she first graduated from LSU, and Mena Arkansas was a favorite motorcycle destination for us back in the 1990s.
Tom Cruise is excellent as Barry Seal, Baton Rouge native, who learned to fly very young and in his 20s became the youngest pilot for TWA, flying a route to/from Europe. But when he was tempted to get involved in a clandestine drug smuggling operation to/from central America he couldn't resist the big salary. He became involved with some of the biggest drug operations of the 1980s amd in the process moved his operation to Mena, Arkanses
This is a good movie of a basically true story. Many liberties were taken with some characters, some timelines, and some events. But the overall story in the movie is faithful to the overall Barry Seal story.
Worthwhile entertainment with a lesson of historical Iran-Contra significance.