American Made

After a day of doing nice things and an afternoon of relaxing, for me it is nice to dish up the dinner and sit on the couch and watch a movie.  Itunes and apple TV have made it easier, especially with 99c and 2.99 specials.  Especially when cinemas here charge $17.50 for a seat, it has to really be a good movie for me to want to see it. 

So American Made is a bit of a Tom Cruise movie very loosely based on a real story about Barry Seal, a TWA pilot who became involved with the CIA and ended up being a drug and guns smuggler between several countries in Central and South America and the US.  Tom Cruise does a good job of holding the whole movie, but I can't help but being left with the feeling that the movie felt like it would have done well 10 years ago and that the whole thing just felt a bit smug and self important.  Maybe a drug smuggler story is not really the thing for this middle aged lady viewer.  3/5