“Director Doug Liman takes such profound liberties with the life of Barry Seal that it’s fair to treat the film as fiction, but it’s also a terrific showcase for one sequence after another of Tom Cruise getting the smug smacked out of him,” writes Drew McWeeny.
The Universal project reunites Cruise with Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman and tells the true story of Barry Seal (Cruise), a TWA pilot/hustler who was recruited by the CIA in the ’80s to infiltrate a communist threat in Central America.
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