Barry Seal: Only in America (2017)

Barry Seal: Only in America: Directed by Doug Liman. With Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons. The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.

“I was lucky to get an advanced screening. First off, at least it kept my attention the whole way through. I had previously seen Cruise in the u0026quot;Mummyu0026quot; movie recently released and was not impressed with his acting there.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn this movie he returned to form and therefore the story-line was far more plausible. I say story-line, but in reality it is one of those docu-dramau0026#39;s, being based on fact. I wonder how much was dramatization as there were some parts where you would ask u0026quot;did this sh*t really happen?!u0026quot;u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWould I be inclined to add it to my DVD collection, no. It was good as a one time showing. I suspect the length of it worked somewhat against it. A long movie needs to build up to a crescendo, and whilst this had lots of action it never seemed to hit that top note.”