Cruise is on top form in a based-on-fact thriller that overcomes its familiar trappings with audacious details and flat-out pacing.
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.
A forgettable flight of fantasy.
There's an incredible story to be told about the life of pilot Barry Seal, but it's buried under Cruise's usual perfect heroics.
A grinning Cruise is back in Top Gun territory in Doug Liman’s sort-of-true story about a bored pilot who starts working for a Columbian cartel and the CIA.
Tom Cruise is a hoot in this true-life inspired caper from director Doug Liman.
Cruise still has that smirking, mischievous quality he first brought to screen in Risky Business all those years ago. We soon realise that Barry isn’t such a departure for him after all. It’s a role that nobody else could have played better.
An entertaining if glib film, especially if you are a Cruise fan.
Tom Cruise’s aviator sunglasses can’t disguise the flaws in this playful but shallow take on 80s pilot Barry Seal’s dealings with drug cartels and the CIA.
Barry Seal: The real-life story behind Tom Cruise's character in American Made.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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