'American Made' Review: This is not a true story!

🌟American Made🌟Review🌟5.9/10🌟

Directed by Doug Liman

Starring: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson and Sarah Wright

First of all, I have to point out that the cinematography was absolute garbage. I guess some directors think that it looks good to film a movie as if it were being 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 and a fair few seemed like they were zoomed in way too far, cropping focal points out of the scene. I personally don't think such camera techniques look good at all. They look cheap like a low-budget documentary. One of the points of a movie is to sink in to it and "forget" you're even watching a movie. Well, this camera guy didn't have that concept in mind.

Now going beyond the awful cinematography, I felt like the writing was poor, on-top of that, I felt that the acting was below average. A real good movie has every cast member fitting a scene. A couple of the characters didn't even feel like characters, just actors.

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.

On top of all that, most of it is lies to protect the true guilty. In real life Barry Seal was fired from TWA in '72 when he was charged for smuggling plastic explosives across Mexico. He flew tons of coke into the States for multiple drug kingpins, including Escobar. When he was busted, he started working for the DEA as an informant. He was overweight, poisoned his fellow Americans with drugs; and didn't care about his family enough to enter WITSEC. Not cool, not good, really disappointed as the trailer was the best part of it all.