Not good.

Rating: 2/10 (30 September 2017)

First of all, the cinematography was garbage. I guess some directors think that it looks good to film a movie as if it were filmed by an amateur using a go-pro. Not only were the camera shots always shaky, they weren't even good. Some shots just seemed pointless. As if some high school first-time videographer was trying out shots that they thought would look good, like putting the camera on the floor. How creative. Not. Also, many shots seemed like they were zoomed in too far, cropping focal points out of the scene.
I personally don't think such camera techniques look good. They look cheap. The idea of a movie is to sink in to it and "forget" you're even watching a movie. Well, this camera person didn't have that concept in mind. Not at all.
Some videographers & directors take big risks trying out unique camera shots, and for some films their experiments work out. But it many others, they don't. And in this one, their unique camera style did not work.
And now going beyond the awful videography, I felt like the writing wasn't even that great. And ontop of that, I felt that the acting wasn't even that great. A real good movie has every cast member fitting a scene. A lot of the characters felt like actors. It felt cheap.
And besides the bad filming, poor-writing & sub-par acting, the movies whole storyline seems to glorify criminal drug-runners & make them look like a bunch of fun cool guys. In reality, that's not the case. The big cocaine dealers are hard criminals.
And furthermore, while the movie doesn't officially state that the CIA themselves were smuggling cocaine, it's clear they were. And for someone spin that as a good thing; pumping hard life-ruining narcotics into neighborhoods that otherwise would have been void of drugs, is absurd. Doesn't matter if they are "funding anti-communist matters". Not only would such tactics be ultimately irrelevant to US taxpayers interests, it in effect destroys US communities.
All around I found this film to be poorly produced & a dismal portrayal of any sort of realism. It's just a big Hollywood cool-guy party where are the characters are hip sunglass wearing party animals having fun swimming in money & enjoy life! There's no realism in the characters; it's absurd.
After one painful hour I left the theater.
I read one reviewer saying "this is Tom Cruise's best film!"
Wow. Obviously their film criticism has no value.
To rate this film alongside Mission Impossible films, Jack Reacher, Edge of Tomorrow, War of Worlds & Oblivion is totally absurd.
Sadly I'd put this film in the same basket as "The Mummy".