One of the pleasures of American Made, the new Tom Cruise movie, is watching an average American – well, an average American scam artist—tying several muscular arms of the U.S. government in knots. It’s hard to say how faithful the movie is to the facts of this real-life case (director Doug Liman calls the film “a fun lie based on a true story”), but you have to take your Schadenfreude where you can get it, and here it is.
Having weathered the charisma hit of The Mummy less than four months ago, Cruise is back at full star wattage here, completely engaged and funnier than he’s been in years. He’s playing Barry Seal, an airline pilot back around the turn of the 1980s. Barry has an illicit sideline—smuggling Cuban cigars in from South American runs—that has brought him to the attention of the authorities. Although not the authorities he might have expected, writes Kurt Loder in his latest review for Reason.
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