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Friday, September 29, 2017

AMERICAN MADE



AMERICAN MADE 

Film review by Fiore

This film will serve only to display the hypocrisy of the Hollywood Liberal Looney Left (H3L), who praise star Tom Cruise for this performance, while demeaning his performance in THE MUMMY, when he is essentially playing the same character.  What begins as a film utilizing revisionist history to create an anti-hero out of a rogue, turns into demagoguery on Republican Presidents and America. 
   
The film divulges its story at a time just before the Iran-Contra scandal, when General Noriega, Pablo Escobar and Oliver North were all coming to power.  Barry Seal was a commercial airline pilot, who opted to chuck the friendly skies to run drugs and then weapons to South America before he was recruited by the CIA to help fund a South American revolution.  The film stars Tom Cruise; Domhnall Gleeson; Sarah Wright’ and E. Roger Mitchell .

The hypocrisy shows in the trade press for the film.  Critics are salivating over Cruise’s performance, yet it is a carbon copy of the persona he offered in THE MUMMY.  Admittedly one character is fictitious while the other is based on an actual person, but he deliver and manner Cruise creates are the same.  THE MUMMY was worth repeated viewings; this one, is not.

I remember the incidents surrounding Seals well.  They were not funny, but rather bordered on tragic.  Yet all the events in AMERICAN MADE are  ‘Hollywoodized” and the film is played for laughs.  Cruise plays Seal as a lovable rogue, often bewildered by his circumstances.  This is the same way he played Nick Morton.
The reason the trades are favorable to this performance is, at the film’s conclusion, the Hollywood leftist agenda rumbles in with snide, and unnecessary comments on the two former presidents and one final insult to America.

Mel Gibson, in AIR AMERICA tackled this topic with a little more style, and a little more panache.  Director Doug Liman teamed with Cruise before on EDGE OF TOMORROW; unfortunately, AMERICAN MADE does not capture any of the duo’s past glory.

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