Every day, Allociné recommends a film to (re) see on TV. Tonight: Tom Cruise works for the CIA and is … drug trafficker!
This is one of Tom Cruise’s least known films, but it is absolutely necessary to give it a second chance! Don’t miss it thriller Barry Seal: American Traffic, broadcast this Monday evening on France 3, in which the Hollywood star embodies a scammer pilot recruited by the CIA and who becomes … drug trafficker!
Inspired by an incredible true story, Barry Seal: American Traffic, released in theaters in 2017, sees Tom Cruise collaborating again with the director Doug Liman (La Mémoire en la Skin, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) three years after the science fiction film Edge of Tomorrow. And their reunion is a treat!
The Jubilatory Barry Seal: American Traffic, rhythmic tragicomedia, full of energy and adventures, is a high-end entertainment, surprising from start to finish. Above all, with this role of unpublished anti-hero at home, Tom Cruise (who has turned eight times with the same actor) is absolutely great as a daredevil seducer, husband and father of love, who leads a double life. Impossible not to rejoice before the actor’s performance!
“We always speak on the intrepid side of Tom Cruise, because of his waterfalls, his climbing of a skyscraper, his scene hanging on a plane …”note Doug Liman. “But Tom Cruise’s true courage is to let directors like me to bring him to roles very far from what he usually does.”
Tom Cruise himself pilots film planes (logic!)
“In Edge of Tomorrow, it was a huge coward. In American Traffic, she is an opportunist who always manages to get out of the game, even in front of the White House, the CIA or the Colombian Cartels”continues the filmmaker. “He is totally impudent, and has no qualms about taking advantage of all those who cross his path. Despite that, there is something very endearing at home. Even more when he takes the features of Tom Cruise. You can only get attached to him.”
Barry Seal: American Traffic, shot in the heart of the Colombian city of Medellin, finally allowed Doug Liman and Tom Cruise, confirmed pilots, to maintain their passion for planes. “Tom has completed all the flight scenes himself, he even sent one of our planes to Colombia “says the filmmaker.
Ready to fly with Tom Cruise to discover a incredible and true adventure? Takeoff is planned this evening on your screen …
Tonight on France 3 at 9:10 p.m.
The trailer for “Barry Seal American Traffic”:
Posted on August 18, Clément Cuyer, Allociné
