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Lord of War (2005)
A wily arms dealer dodges bullets and betrayal as he schemes his way to the top of his profession, only to come face to face with his conscience. But it's not easy to leave a life of girls, guns and glamour when nobody wants you to stop, not even your enemies. (read more)
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I watched two Cage films the other night. This was one that I had not seen previously. It was an extremely good satire about the arms business.
That was the point of the film. Selling arms does not have a moral component. It is a business. After all, the United States is the biggest arms merchant in the world. We end up...
(complete Lord of War review by B Movie Ben)
Lord of War Movie Review by Max  (4/15/2006) |
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Nicolas Cage is one of those actors you can put in any role; the film can be absolutely terrible but he will always amaze you with his abilities. In the film, "Lord of War," Cage plays an arms dealer who is cool, funny, good and bad all rolled into one. It's hard to imagine anyone else playing this character with such...
(complete Lord of War review by Max)
| Lord of War Movie Review by AJ (4/14/2006) |
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This movie has potential greatness oozing from every frame...it's just that Niccol misuses it. After a great opening dialogue from Nicolas Cage, followed by a clever opening credits sequence that tracks a bullet from its birth to its deployment and eventually to its use, the film sinks into a kind of rhythmic mediocrity....
(complete Lord of War review by AJ)
| Lord of War Movie Review by Matthew (9/19/2005) |
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Four and 1/2 may be high, but its a darn good film.
I'm going to borrow an analogy used in the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings for a moment. When Nicholas Cage comes up to bat, he frequently hits singles or misses, but when he hits a homerun, it is usually out of the ballpark. Cage has certainly made his share...
(complete Lord of War review by Matthew)
| Lord of War Movie Review by Jarrod (9/17/2005) |
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Lord of War contains some fundamental and harsh truths about the nature of war; mainly, that they will be fought regardless of what mechanisms are available. This is an observation made by Yuri Orlov (Cage), an arms dealer who sells to anybody anywhere, as long as they have the means to pay him. Conscience is not really...
(complete Lord of War review by Jarrod)
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