Doug Liman

I do not think I ever saw this film. It is quite entertaining though.

John (Brad Pitt) and Jane (Angelina Jolie) accidentally meet and soon get married. Both are guns for hire, but they hide that for the other half. After a storming start their relationship becomes a typical, ‘vanilla’ relationship of a couple that does not communicate and couple’s counceling.

Unsurprisingly, Mr. and Mrs. Smith get to be assigned to both sides of a job. Initially they try to kill each other after that job gone wrong, then they make up, but get their respective employers after them and as an invincible duo, they fight back.

No surprises, but amusing dialogues and allright action.

I bought a box with the three Bourne films. Damon is not really my actor and action not my genre, but they are rated well enough, the box was cheap (and I mixed them up with the Rippley films), so…

Damon is a secret agent who has lost his memory after a mission. While he is trying to find out his identity, his employers set out to kill him as soon as they find out that Bourne is not dead.

As expected, this is an action spectacle with fighting, shooting and car-chases. Amusing at best. The story unfolds nicely, which could be because the film is based on a book by Robert Ludlum.

Not really a high-flyer, but not boring.

Since the “Narcos” series, everything around Pablo Escobar and the drug trafficking between South and North America seems to appeal to the people. The director did find an amusing story in that corner though.

“American Made” is another cooperation between Doug Liman and Tom Cruise. Cruise plays Barry Seal, an airline pilot who is hired by the CIA for some covert activities. Soon these activities become even more covert and then Seal is even hired by the other side. Pretty soon he runs a business in which money is coming in like crazy.

Liman turned Seal into an underground pop-star, who initially tries to get out of all his missions alive, but who later got gripped by the gathering of money. He also shows the weird ways of corrupt government agencies and their relations to foreign politics and its legal and illegal allies.

“American Made” is an amusing film about a strange part of recent history and probably a welcome addition to the ‘Escobar franchise’.