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It's naive to expect truth from 'based-on-true-story' projects, but narrative content should be required ingredient. 'American Made' plays like a movie trailer throughout its two-hour length, stirring together the standard motifs of 1980s cocaine smuggling sagas like 'Blow'. The story boils down to a procession of mustachioed Colombian cartel bosses, DEA agents and drug-courier aviators hauling cocaine, firearms and bags of cash around jungle landing strips, hotel lobbies and small town banks in the ugly fashions of the day.

Tom Cruise portrays pilot protagonist Barry Seal as an easygoing coke-smuggling, gun-running, Caddy-driving adventurer. His self-deprecating charm and aerial dare-devilry are supposed to hold the film together, but both charisma and exploits seem stale. After the CIA persuade Seal to aid their anti-communist follies in Central America, he fends off the various suspicions and demands of his dumb blonde wife, crooked associates and two-faced CIA handlers. The script never develops any of these stock characters as the story unfolds with the depth of a music video. At the conclusion, there's little reason to believe a word of it, or care what happens to any of the participants.

And Tom Cruise is one of them.

Let's be honest here. Tom Cruise has never been a good actor, he just got where he is now due to contacts, his agency and especially physical aspect, to attract women and girls. He is a real drip. Whose only good performances is the good-looking hero who said good one-liners (Mission Impossible - a franchise that Hollywood created on purpose only to increase his ego, in which he is the only relevant character there), or the patriarch service, scenes of Tropic Thunder, are the perfect example what he does well, a guy who likes to be the boss and abuse women and employees.

Now with this pathetic movie, someone wants to convince me that Cruise can play Barry Seal, a guy who gets out in front of the government, a Latino drug cartel, drug barons, CIA, FBI or more than a thousand and one things yet to be made or discovered by man. Hell no. If someone at Hollywood want to make a convincing Barry Seal, bring someone with the caliber of Josh Brolin. That would give this project even more credit. And who had the sad idea to make Cruise the narrator of this film. I hate this one-liner, I'm the only guy, who always delivers. I do not even remember half the movie. The way the film is so bad structurally.

But Tom Cruise is not the only flaw in this project (this project was born crooked at birth). The movie itself was never taken seriously. What do you expect from a movie coming out after the summer season? A serious film about a serious subject, with a good script and a good acting? No way.

The movie is full of useless sex jokes typical of larger-budget films from Hollywodd, the Tom Cruise scene having sex with his wife in the cockpit of the plane is ridiculous or Tom Cruise's character constantly showing the "butt"- It's deplorable, I know. Or male jokes like Tom Cruise facing 100 or more Hispanics with a baseball bat. Incompetent scene.

The direction of the film is flawed, the pace is horrendous, there are some scenes too long, or some too short. The acting is too fake, especially on the part of Jayma Mays (the most unbelievable justice solicitor, I have ever seen) and Sarah Wright (the windy head, annoying, generic woman of Barry Seal).

Holes in the script (no one has remembered the corpse of the useless brother of the wife of Barry Seal, the police in this film is really useless and unprepared, by the way).

Not to forget how this film treats the people of Latin America, whose only humans that appear in the film, are drug dealers, murderers or pornography lovers. Or the people of Mena, that this film represents as useless morons from the countryside.

What a useless and terrible movie we have here. Someone burns this movie as fast as possible. I would not recommend it to anyone.

This is probably the worst movie I've seen this year. Cruise acted downright silly and the whole thing came off as a joke. I couldn't tell what the genre was suppose to be. A drama, a comedy, adventure ??? It reminded me of a little boy who loves airplanes so he made a movie just so he could fly one or pretend to.In all seriousness, I thought it was insulting.

Cruise did not try to look like the real Barry Seal as actors before him did like Robert De Niro when in Raging Bull he gained weight to look like Jack LaMotta or Johnny Depp looking horrible in Blow (which this movie steals so much from) ... Tom Cruise does not act but POSES to look the coolest in every shot and be the sexy hero he needs to be in order to keep getting other jobs ... He even flashes his butt on us ... When almost shot, it is his companion who pees in his pants but not our cool hero (he only sweats a little) ... The movie may look promising but seemed like it borrowed too much from Goodfellas, Blow and other similar movies ... And, again, it is hard to see past Tom Cruise again trying so hard to re-create his role in Risky Business or Days of Thunder ... The movie is one long Tom Cruise SELFIE !!!

Were these rave reviews written by Scientologists brain washed to like all Tom Cruise movies? I had a hard time sitting through this. It felt like someone was tasked to write a summer movie in a day and then crapped this out. This should have been straight to DVD. Indescribably horrible.

This could have been a good movie but it is so bad I left halfway through and got my money back. Need I say more, be warned this is woeful and a 7.5 is a disgrace. Its very hard to outline how bad it is without giving away the storyline!! All I can say its clichéd ridden but even they are bad, move to a house tap not working etc etc.

Politics aside, American Made is just awful. Looked like it was filmed with someone's cell phone. I decided to see this dog because movie critics gave it high marks and I liked some of Tom Cruise previous movies. Obviously critics judge movies based on its politics first and its entertainment value last, or not at all. I can only assume Tom Cruise chose to star in this terrible movie for approval from actors and the clowns who run Hollywood. This is the 3rd terrible movie I've seen based on movie critic recommendations and it'll be my last. Hollywood is dying because to many people associated with the movie industry are political elitist who look down on everyday "deplorable" working Americans - i.e. their customers.

Without spoiling it, this movie attempts to assign a heinous act to Ronald Reagan when he was in no way responsible. I'm not talking about Iran-Contra in general, but watch near the end of the movie the way they try to frame him as a heartless person who puts someone's life in danger. It's BS - he never did that. Read up on the facts of this operation.

Hollywood hypes itself and many of you swallow the bait . They take your money for a mediocre films that get better rating due to the hype . New films are the same old components juggled around and reheated . This dinosaur is looking old and pale and weary and Cruz is the same .

I'm not going to see this movie. I refuse to contribute a penny to Tom Cruise's pocket. Every character he has ever played is the same arrogant, cocky asshole like in Risky Business. And... I'm not going to mention the cult he is a part of. He's a disgusting person, and a crappy actor.

FACT 1: Tom loves playing Tom on the big screen so much he needs these films more than we do.

FACT 2: Unless you're someone who is okay with FACT 1 it'll bore you to the limit in about 120 seconds flat.