Based on a true story of an airline pilot in the 1980's who is recruited by the CIA to (at first) take photos over Cuba and then later to smuggle drugs and weapons for the U.S government. Barry Seal slowly gets in over his head when he becomes involved with the Medellin drug Cartel.

This story could have benefitted from a different lead, Tom Cruise is just his MI character, the same action guy as always just with a different background and it sucked the movie down for me so that I wasn't watching a true story about Barry Seal but a Tom Cruise action movie.

Its entertaining enough and plays out like 'Scarface' or Johnny Depp's 'Blow'. All the money, so much money he doesn't know where to keep it after a while. Interesting unbelievably true, worth a watch.