American Made Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

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7. Tom Cruise Redeems Himself After The Mummy

It'd be easy to start worrying about the typically reliable Tom Cruise after his last two movies, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and The Mummy, felt so phoned-in and effortless.

American Made, thankfully, sees Tom Cruise back on dedicated form, hurling himself into the central role despite the aforementioned likeness issues, and proving consistently entertaining throughout.

Cruise's charisma is put to terrific use here, making Seal a likeable, slippery rogue, and though there's hardly much here in the way of challenging stunt work for the Mission: Impossible star, he still gives 110% to the part.

Simply, no, Cruise isn't just going for easy paychecks these days, and clearly still aspires to make films both artful and entertaining.