Synopsis
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
- Tom CruiseBarry Seal
- Sarah WrightLucy Seal
- Domhnall GleesonMonty Schafer
- Alejandro EddaJorge Ochoa
- Jesse PlemonsSheriff Downing
- Connor TrinneerGeorge W. Bush
- Mauricio MejíaPablo Escobar
- Jayma MaysDana Sibota
- Lola KirkeJudy Downing
- April BillingsleyJenny
Recommendations
- 80
Total Film
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
IndieWire
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
Variety
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
Screen Daily
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. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
This is yet another hyper-competent, boyishly devil-may-care character that offers Cruise, famous for his derring-do on set, a chance to do his own stunts and fly a plane; it’s not a role all that far out of the ageing megastar’s wheelhouse. - 60
Time Out London
Liman mines the story for familiar but fun comedy...though it never reaches the comedic heights of rise-and-fall classics such as Goodfellas or The Wolf of Wall Street. - 60
The Telegraph
The film is much too anxious – desperately so – for us to feel that Barry is a fundamentally decent guy.
