Air America (1990)
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
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“American Made” is a better, more intriguingly conflicted project than (a generation ago) “Air America” with Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as heroin smugglers in the Vietnam War.
It’s “Blow” and “Air America” and “Narcos” all rolled into one laugh-through-the-grimaces romp, a picture so clever its damning history lesson may be ignored by those who don’t know history, and cannot recognize when it repeats itself.
“ American Made ” is basically a mash-up of “Air America” and “Goodfellas,” with Cruise using his own piloting skills to do stunt work.