Tom Cruise is Barry Seal, a TWA
pilot whom we first meet in the
late ‘70s earning money on the
side importing Cuban cigars
to the US. When the CIA, in the
form of weaselly agent Monty
Schafer (a uniquely creepy Dom-
hnall Gleeson), scupper his ex-
ploits, Seal is offered a way to
avoid jail time - join the CIA as
a pilot. Soon, Seal is making a
more lucrative living flying over
Latin American war zones and
taking not so covert photos for
his employers.
On one of his trips South of the
border, Seal is approached by
Jorge Ochoa (Alejandro Edda),
the head of Colombia’s most
notorious drug cartel. It doesn’t
take much to coerce Seal into
agreeing to carry large quantities
of cocaine aboard his plane, and
soon the pilot is making more
money than he ever imagined.
Seal never gets high on his own
supply (unlike his young brother
in-law, played by a never more
typecast Caleb Landry-Jones),
but instead becomes addicted
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