Barry Seal is not a bad guy. Even what we call a stylish man. Those who met him in the 80s testify to this. His only flaw: he always feels stuck with the rules, the legality… and the pursuit of only adrenaline and excitement seems to be his compass, his life. And also some powerful and dangerous “friends” to whom he finds himself attached precisely because of his reluctance to the above-mentioned arrangements. Gifted with his broomstick, Barry joined the prestigious TWA in the seventies. Too quickly, the routine of commercial flights knocks him out. For excitement, he carries a few embargoed Cuban cigars. Peccadillo, whose disastrous consequences are far from imagining. Interrogated by the CIA, Barry is offered a deal: He either agrees to fly spy planes for them over Marxist guerrilla camps in Central America or loses his license. “Is it legal? she worries.
Answer: “If you do it for the good guys, yes! He was soon recruited by the Colombian cartel of Pablo Escobar, with whom he also flooded American soil with cocaine, despite himself in the “flying gringo”. This places him in the sights of the DEA, the US anti-drug police, where he has become his primary target. His friends in the secret service rescue him, this time on the condition that he carry a gun to overthrow the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Like a fish in water, a good father and a loving multimillionaire husband, Barry finds himself at the center of one of the biggest political-military scandals of the Reagan years: Irangate!
A NEW HERO!
“I don’t approve of what he did, but it’s hard not to be impressed with Barry Seal. Tom Cruise explains that he’s a one-of-a-kind anti-hero, representing him with an irresistible vile charm and arrogance. You’re not presented with a character like this every day! » « The story offers all the essential elements for a movie that combines suspense, satire and comedy in equal measure and never ceases to amaze us. Adds director Doug Liman, who directed the actor on Edge of Tomorrow (2014). Cruise and Harbor are pilots. Pieces of courage blew up the screen. The actor played the aerial scenes himself, staying true to his love of risk. Zero special effects, excitement guaranteed. In this, Tom is on the same wavelength as Barry. This audacious complicity undoubtedly fueled his enthusiastic performance. It’s 100 percent satisfying, just like the weird, abrasive, and playful tone of this “abracadabrantesque” adventure behind the bleak scenes of the Reagan administration, with its boundless contradictions and vulgarity in stopping communism. Don’t point too heavily with a euphoric lightness that remembers to be relevant. We’re getting on!
Barry Seal: American Traffic: Tuesday, April 4 at 9:10 p.m. on France 2
JULIAN BARCILON
Source: Programme Television
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