Cruise did not try to look like the real Barry Seal as actors before him did like Robert De Niro when in Raging Bull he gained weight to look like Jack LaMotta or Johnny Depp looking horrible in Blow (which this movie steals so much from) ... Tom Cruise does not act but POSES to look the coolest in every shot and be the sexy hero he needs to be in order to keep getting other jobs ... He even flashes his butt on us ... When almost shot, it is his companion who pees in his pants but not our cool hero (he only sweats a little) ... The movie may look promising but seemed like it borrowed too much from Goodfellas, Blow and other similar movies ... And, again, it is hard to see past Tom Cruise again trying so hard to re-create his role in Risky Business or Days of Thunder ... The movie is one long Tom Cruise SELFIE !!!