RE: The Last Movie You Watched
October 11, 2017 at 3:49 am
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2017 at 3:50 am by Crossless2.0.)
Saw American Made. I’m not much of a Tom Cruise fan, so I was pleasantly surprised at liking the film more than I expected. It was a good role for Cruise, and he did well in it.
It’s one of those “based on true events” stories that — if even half of it is true — leaves you shaking your head in wonder. Cruise plays a TWA Pilot who is recruited by the CIA to take aerial photographs of Sandinista camps. But soon enough, things get very weird, as his character becomes a sort of Zelig-like eyewitness to and participant in some of the most sordid events of the Reagan years, including gun running and cocaine smuggling.
There’s a lot of exposition as various players are identified and the geopolitical relationships of the day explained. I found that odd, since so many of the events that provide the context for the plot seem like just a little while ago to me.
Then I remembered: I’m starting to get old.
It’s one of those “based on true events” stories that — if even half of it is true — leaves you shaking your head in wonder. Cruise plays a TWA Pilot who is recruited by the CIA to take aerial photographs of Sandinista camps. But soon enough, things get very weird, as his character becomes a sort of Zelig-like eyewitness to and participant in some of the most sordid events of the Reagan years, including gun running and cocaine smuggling.
There’s a lot of exposition as various players are identified and the geopolitical relationships of the day explained. I found that odd, since so many of the events that provide the context for the plot seem like just a little while ago to me.
Then I remembered: I’m starting to get old.