Already tired of films and series with the theme of Medellin Cartel, drugs and real stories? Well, there's one more.
Only this time, Tom Cruise bets on a much more humorous tone to portray the real story of Barry Seal, a pilot who is recruited by the CIA and ends up helping to create the Medellin Cartel.
The movie isn't really a true story, it's just based. It has many scenes that border on the ridiculous, as Tom himself comments in Making Off below.
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Made in America does not seek the viewer to make a morality critique. Not even that it has any affinity with the characters. The film is something in the adventure and a homage – another –, to the 1980s.
Seal was a pilot who worked for an airline. An ordinary professional, with a much more ordinary life. Until he is hired by the CIA to have a faxing company and take pictures of “communist enemies”. Being an errand boy for many men who would become famous in his time, as well as a mockery of the USA itself that doesn't know where some (just a few?) Central American countries are.
Over the years, Seal makes contact with the main men who would go on to found the Medellin Cartel and begins trafficking drugs to the US. Over time, his job becomes much more dual, “trafficking” weapons to Central America, men to the US in the service of the CIA, and drugs from Colombia to the US.
Morality is never discussed whether it was right or not. Everything is taken in a very good mood. Something well-chosen, since there are already a lot of serious movies and series on the subject. It wouldn't take another movie with questionable morals being played out to the public. They already know what is right and what is wrong.
And Made in America is correct in simply showing the life of a man who makes money faster than he can spend it. With the weird Cold War-era CIA rules and a little bit of history.
Made in America is for the public to enjoy. Not taking it seriously, but knowing that it's a real story and its ending, even more so. And this is one of the negatives of the film.
In keeping with the good mood, Made in America doesn't show the character drama leading up to its ending. So it can shock you or just ask, “What happened?”, because it doesn't prepare you for the outcome.
Anyway, it's not something that destroys the film.
So go to the movies and have fun!
And let the curtains go up! To the next!!
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