The good; lighthearted portrait of Tom Cruise who plays a goofy pilot, who is recruited by the CIA to smuggle drugs and weapons to terrorists. Things go well for a long time....until they dont.

The bad: there is a lot of goofiness, but not much of a real thrill. Dont expect a tough gangster movie. Dont expect Mission Impossible style action either. This movie is solely about flying more and more drugs and weapons across the border.

How they were able to NOT inject more suspsense and drama into this movie is a mystery, because the ingredients for a thrilling story were all there, but the director decided this should ONLY be a casual, lighthearted portrait of sponsoring terrorism...

Based on a true story, with real life footage of American presidents who were involved in this secretive sponsoring of terrorists. It was a major scandal back in the eighties.