Historically correct, excellent play by the entire crew, brilliant directing, no lag or lull in development, I can't figure out what people don't like about it.
It's a freaking movie for Pete' sake, not the Revelations from the Bible.
I also enjoyed this movie...solid entertainment. I'm surprised there isn't more discussion about it here.
shareIt was OK. but noting special IMO. Sure, compared to other usual crap coming out these days it is very good. But compared to some other greats of that genre (Blow comes to mind) it was just so so.
share/It was OK. but noting special IMO. Sure, compared to other usual crap coming out these days it is very good. But compared to some other greats of that genre (Blow comes to mind) it was just so so./
exactly this.
True ... but then Blow is probably the best movie ever made on the subject.
shareYeah, I enjoyed it a lot, it's a good movie but I kept comparing it to Blow which is on another level. Still solid entertainment.
It was a solid movie... Both fun and with a reality check... It just fell through the cracks... Not hated, just ignored...
I think the mass audience is uninterested in seeing anything that isn't mass CGI with comicbook or similar fantasy elements... Spectacles...
And the critics/media, when they're not busy shilling for those movies, are only interested in championing victim narratives and identity politics movies... Oscar bait... To make themselves feel important...
Also, there is something odd about how critics try to ignore Tom Cruise, despite him still being the biggest movie star globally... And often, a damn fine actor...
Awesome movie..even though I knew what happened to the main character in the end it was still a hell of a good ride.
shareI enjoyed it as a "popcorn flick" myself aware that it was being promoted as "based on a true story" not "a true story" and thus the team behind the film would take artistic license to add to or take from the real story. Some of the differences between fact and fiction are highlighted at http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/american-made.
Besides that I came across Daniel Hopsicker's blog, who's written extensively on this issue over the past several years now besides one of the most definitive books on Seal entitled, "Barry and the Boys". His blog's recently noted some interesting connections between the JFK assassination and Seal http://www.madcowprod.com.
If you want to see another film on Barry Seal check out the TV movie Doublecrossed (1991) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH-cuspaCac) starring the late Dennis Hopper.
I had a great time watching it. Really reminded me of Goodfellas in bits.. I didn't know he gets shot at the end but wasn't surprised cause that's where his story was going heh
shareSaw this just a couple of days ago and agree with the general consensus that it's entertaining. I also gained additional insights into the huge scandal. It's a good companion flick to this, which I also rewatched recently. https://moviechat.org/tt1216491/Kill-the-Messenger
share"Historically correct, excellent play by the entire crew, brilliant directing, no lag or lull in development, I can't figure out what people don't like about it."
There is no way you are honest.. looking at your name, I don't even want to answer to you, but someone has to set this straight.
First.. your post comes off as super sarcastic, because NO ONE can be that ignorant.
Historically WHAT?? This could not BE more historically incorrect and inaccurate! Reconnaissance photos from 20 m altitude?? Get outta here! Those are taken from very high altitudes for a reason.
How it all happened was NOT how depicted in the movie, AT ALL.
Smuggling cigars? Come on..
Sympathetic Tom Cruise playing that evil a-hole so you feel sorry for him, because after all, he was just looking out for his family? In reality, he had a different wife every year in the early 1970s and so on.
I mean, come on, historically correct is the LAST thing anyone should ever say about this movie! How can you think this movie is historically correct at all? The names, some of the events, maybe some of the routes, whatever, might have been. But most of this movie is hollyweird fiction, and EVERYONE knows it, including the makers of the movie! But somehow, not you?
What does 'excellent play' mean? How is that nauseous camera movement 'brilliant directing'?
No lag or lull... err.. in 'development' - development of WHAT?
Are you first time in a human body and trying to learn how to use a written language? I can't make heads or tails out of most of what you are saying, except how WRONG you are about your praise of this movie.
You would not have to suddenly become defensive if this movie was brilliant. We all know it's a movie, that does not mean no one is allowed to criticize it.
Also, why would The Book of Revelations (which is what I think you mean) not be allowed to be criticized?
Why would a 'demon' write 'The Bible' with capital letter? (Though you forgot to include the capital 'T')?
I don't think people have that much against the movie itself, but there is also nothing much to praise about it.
If it was starring some uncharismatic no-name actor, even you couldn't praise this movie as much as you do.
There are plenty of 'lulls' in the movie, but I have to admit, it does have a pretty tight pacing that keeps your interest from going completely limp.
My biggest praise of this movie is that there are not that many 'bad points', there's not much of a 'woke message' or typical misandristic nagging or anything like that, that so many movies have. No needless injected romance or soap opera, either.
But there's NOTHING 'brilliant' about this movie, either, so you are still completely wrong. If you don't 'get' what people might not like about this, then you haven't learned to use the human brain very well yet, I guess those brains are not very compatible with demons..