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American Made Movie Review & Film Summary (2. The makers of the based- on- a- true- story black comedy "American Made" fail to satisfactorily answer one pressing question: why is CIA operative and Colombia drug- runner Barry Seal's story being told as a movie and not a book?

What's being shown in this film that couldn't also be expressed in prose? In telling the true story of American airplane pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), writer Gary Spinelli and director Doug Liman ("Edge of Tomorrow," "Jumper") choose to overstimulate viewers rather than challenge them. They emphasize Barry's charm, the exotic nature of his South American trade routes, and the rapid escalation of events that ultimately led to his downfall. Cruise's smile is, in this context, deployed like a weapon in Liman and Spinelli's overwhelming charm offensive. You don't get a lot of psychological insight into Barry's character, or learn why he was so determined to make more money than he could spend, despite conflicting pressures from Pablo Escobar's drug cartel and the American government to either quit or collude. Advertisement. But you do get a lot of shots of Cruise grinning from behind aviator glasses in extreme close- ups, many of which are lensed with hand- held digital cameras that show you the wilds of Nicaragua and Colombia through an Instagram- cheap green/yellow filter. American Made" may be superficially a condemnation of the hypocritical American impulse to take drug suppliers' money with one hand and chastise users with the other. But it's mostly a sensational, sub- "Wolf of Wall Street"- style true crime story that attempts to seduce you, then abandon you.

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The alarming pace of Barry's narrative, designed to put Cruise’s charisma front and center, keeps viewers disoriented. It's often hard to understand Barry's motives beyond caricature- broad assumptions about his (lack of) character. In 1. 97. 7, Barry agrees to fly over South American countries and take photos of suspected communist groups using a spy plane provided by shadowy CIA pencil- pusher Schafer (Domhnall Gleeson). Barry is impulsive, or so we're meant to think based on an incident where he wakes up a sleeping co- pilot by abruptly sending a commercial airliner into a nosedive. This scene may explain why Barry grins like a lunatic as he explains to his wife Lucy (Sarah Wright) that he'll figure out a way to pay out of pocket for his family's health insurance once he opens an independent shipping company called "IAC" (Get it?

IAC - CIA?). Barry's impetuousness does not, however, explain why he flies so low to land when he takes his photographs. Watch Richard Pryor Live On The Sunset Strip Tube Free here. Or why he doesn't immediately reach out to Schafer when he's kidnapped and forced by Escobar (Mauricio Mejia) and his Cartel associates to deliver hundreds of pounds of cocaine to the United States.

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Or why Barry thinks so little of his wife and kids that he packs their Louisiana house up one night without explanation, and moves them to a safe- house in Arkansas. There's character- defining insanity, and then there's "this barely makes sense in the moment when it is happening" crazy. Barry often appears to be the latter kind of nutbar. Advertisement. There are two types of people in "American Made": the kind that work and the kind that get worked over.

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It's easy to tell the two apart based on how much screen- time Spinelli and Liman devote to each character. Schafer, for example, is defined by the taunts he suffers from a fellow cubicle drone and his own tendency to over- promise. Schafer doesn't do real work—not in the filmmakers' eyes. The same is true of Escobar and his fellow dealers, who are treated as lawless salesmen of an unsavory product. And don't get me started on JB (Caleb Landry Jones), Lucy's lazy, Gremlin- driving, under- age- girl- dating, Confederate- flag- waving redneck brother. But what about Lucy?

She keeps Barry's family together, but her feelings are often taken for granted, even when she calls Barry out for abandoning her suddenly in order to meet up with Schafer. Barry responds by throwing bundles of cash at his wife's feet. The argument, and the scene end just like that, like a smug joke whose punchline might as well be, There's no problem that a ton of cash can't solve."American Made" sells a toxic, shallow, anti- American Dream bill of goods for anybody looking to shake their head about exceptionalism without seriously considering what conditions enable that mentality. Spinelli and Liman don't say anything except, Look at how far a determined charmer can go if he's greedy and determined enough. They respect Barry too much to be thoughtfully critical of him. And they barely disguise their fascination with broad jokes that tease Barry's team of hard- working good ol' boys and put down everyone else. Sure, it's important to note that Barry ultimately meets a just end, one that's been prescribed to thousands of other would- be movie gangsters. But you can easily shrug off a little finger- wagging at the end of a movie that treats you to two hours of Tom Cruise charming representatives of every imaginable US institution (they don't call in the Girl Scouts, the Golden Girls or the Hulk- busters, but I'm sure they're in a director's cut).

If there is a reason, good or bad, that "American Made" is a movie, it's that you can't be seduced by the star of "Top Gun" in a book. Advertisement.

Max Steel - Wikipedia. Max Steel is a line of action figures produced and owned by the toy company Mattel since 1. The original figures based on the first TV series were similar to the original 1. G. I. Joe toys, consisting almost entirely of different versions of Max Steel, the main character, and one or two of his enemies, a couple of vehicles and two or three special packages.

The original toy series ran from 1. At the end of that period, was substituted by a different series of toys with the same brand name, but with a change in quality and design intended to tie into the companion TV series in 2. The 2. 01. 3 line did not exhibit 1/6 scale of the original and reduced the number of articulations and action features of the figures. Max Steel was simultaneously developed into an animated series of the same name, which originally aired from February 2.

January 1. 5, 2. 00. A reboot aired on Disney XD in the United States,[1][2] where it had premiered on March 2. Original toy series 1. Watch Justice Dailymotion.

In 1. 99. 8, Netter Digital was commissioned by Mattel to create and develop a secret agent themed TV series partially based on James Bond's adventures, but aimed to young kids. The series premiered in 2. October 1. 99. 9, the first toys based on the series hit the shelves. The Max Steel toy line quickly become an instant success, although most of the first toys were completely different from the characters on the series. This may be due to the fact that both, series and toys, were developed simultaneously, but in independent way.

Most early Max Steel toys had a notorious military, adventure or sport clothes not related to the series in any way, but surprisingly quite similar to the 7. Mattel's action figure Big Jim. It was also noted that in Latin American market, many Big Jim toys were sold at that time under the name "Kid Acero", which literally translates as "Kid Steel", a different Mattel toyline who also had a similar plot as Max Steel's TV series. Eventually, Mattel cleared those apparent coincidences in a TV episode in which it is revealed that Max Steel is indeed Big Jim's son, and other secondary character named "Jefferson Smith" is actually "Big Jeff" from the same classical Big Jim toy line, just 2.

After the first year, development of the series went to Foundation Imaging, an animation company which eventually declared a bankruptcity at the end of second series. Mattel then choose Rainmaker_Entertainment as the main animation studio, which at the time also was in charge of Transformers: Beast Wars. Following the same formula as Beast Wars, once Mainframe took control of the production, every new toy makes an appearance in the series or the movies, so they finally made a match. After the Endangered Species movie, every new set of toys includes at least a couple of wild animals as companions of Max too. The original run of the original toy series began in 1. TV series. Since the toy line was intended solely for male kids, despite of the constant presence of empowered women in the series as main or supporting characters, no female figures were ever produced. Max Steel Series 1.

All the initial run of Max Steel action figures were quite different from the TV character, due to the fact the character was in development at the time. Most Max Steel vehicles of this series used to be blue, with yellow or green accents, as the early 8. Big Jim sport and spy series. This particular combination of colors was widely used on all Max Steel toys for waves 1 and 2, despite the fact the main characters in the series wears blue and brown uniforms.

It was only until wave 3 when the first Max Steel action figure to be identical as the TV character "Going Turbo!" was released, a year after the initial debut of Max Steel,[4] but in the new Urban Siege sub line instead of the main toy line. Additional to the multiple Max toy versions, only one villain named Psycho was released as the main antagonist, although in the TV series Max had over a dozen different recurrent enemies. Waves 1 and 2 included exactly the same Psycho action figure, with only minor changes in the box. Wave 3 changed Psycho's mechanic arm, for a new spring loaded one, while the rest of the body remained mostly the same. Several large size vehicles, including a jet, a boat and a couple of sport cars were released as part of this initial series.

Series 2: Themed series. At the end of 2. 00. Mattel took the decision to divide the Max Steel figures into different sub lines. All sport related toys, for example, would go to "Extreme Sports Adventure," while others would go into "Urban Siege," "Snake Island," etc. Vitriol, a new villain, was produced as the main villain in the sub line Urban Siege, usign the same molds used to produce Psycho. Vitriol and Psycho wear the same pants, albeit different colors. The only notorious difference is, while Psycho's right arm is a bionic construction which can be transformed into a claw/laser, Vitriol's arms were green, with light up features.

By an unfortunate coincidence, after the September 1. Urban Siege action figures were immediately recalled because they contained "Secret Mission" Cards. Each card contained clues and plots about fictional terrorists attacks on American soil.

Children were supposed to use the cards to be "informed of their next mission and stop the terrorists" before they could demolish a building, spread a deadly virus or detonate a nuke bomb, among other tasks. Vitriol and least a couple of cards included the text: "Vitriol is on top of the World Trade Center ready to blast the city with his deadly energy waves! Your Mission: Stop Vitriol before he destroys New York City!".[5] Once any mention of terrorism in New York was eliminated, the toys returned to the shelves, but as part of the main line this time. The Urban Siege series which focused on counter terrorism ended immediately after the recall. Other figures of different lines retained their respective mission cards. Rumors say the real reason of this act of empathy were the low popularity and poor sales of Vitriol, specially because it is the only Max Steel action figure never produced again after its initial release. Endangered Species.

In 2. 00. 4, Mattel took the decision to cancel the TV show and create a series of direct to DVD movies instead, to be released in an annual schedule, starting with Endangered Species. This also marked a completely new direction of the toy line. Since then, every new set of Max Steel toys makes an appearance in their respective movie, a formula also used on Barbie, Monster High and other Mattel products. Unfotunately, as a result of this decision, several iconic characters and vehicles which were not included on that specific movie were removed from the toyline.

The N- Tek minijet and the Sport Coupe which were Max's primary ways of transportation in the TV series didn't make the cut into the movies, so the respective toys were discontinued before the movie's premiere. Many other elements from the series were also removed from the toys, including any mention of Max' secret identity, "Josh Mc. Grath". Although no toys based on Josh were ever released, he was often mentioned in the toy's packages. World of elements Series. In the 2. 00. 5 movie "Forces of Nature" a new villain is introduced in the toy line, an artificial creature named Elementor, who has the ability to emulates 5 different elements (water, fire, air, earth and metal). This allowed Mattel to create several different versions of the same character, as opposite to the previous toy series in which usually only one or two villain figures were produced. At some point, Mattel released 1.

Elementor variations, 2 for each element at the same time. For the second wave, all Max figures were reassigned to a specific "World of..", with arms, equipment and accessories designed to challenge each specific Elementor's version.

Thus, in the "World of Water", Max is dressed as a diver or surfer, uses a surf board, a boat and battles Water Elementor only.