Lord of War (Widescreen)
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Movie Reviews of Lord of War (Widescreen)
Movie Review: A brilliant look at a "behind the curtain" look at guns and violence.
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a superb look at a man who sells guns for a living to all countries and the bad/good choices he makes in his life.
Watching this film gives you a deep insight into how rival countries get the weapons they get. You are taken into a journey into a dark world full of corruption and violence.
Pegged in the middle of it is Nicholas Cage's character, Yuri Orlov. We get to see his 40 year life span as he evolves from a peasant working at the family restaurant to a gun-selling "maniac" who becomes deeply obsessed into what he does. We see that as he becomes more induced into this dark, violent world of weapons, we his soul become darker as well. He lies to his wife and betrays the people he sells guns to. Yuri sells his guns to both sides of wars and states that he doesn't care who has the guns, it's that their using them. This is probably one of Nicholas Cage's finest and trickiest performances.
This film feels like Scarface in the sense of a lower-class man starting out with minimal earnings and working his way up in a business most people would shun away from. Ethan Hawke plays a cop who is desperate to put him away. But, Yuri is always one step ahead of him in hiding all of his guns and evidence to prevent Hawke from getting any real evidence out of him.
This is a very intelligent script with an intriguing premise that will plug you right into Yiri Orlov's life and well send you deeper into the corrupt, immoral man he becomes.
Movie Review: Helpful in National Soul Searching and Confronting Reality
Summary: 5 Stars
Many of the reviews of this movie are unusually naive and stupid.
My review of this movie is based on a lifetime overseas as the son of an oilman, as a Marine Corps infantry officer, as a clandestine case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, and as the foremost trainer of governments interested in getting a grip on reality by focusing on open source of information in all languages.
This is a first rate movie with some truly extraordinary visuals and some truly extraordinary lines. It is an intelligence movie for intelligent people, and it should certainly give anyone both a couple of hours of enjoyment, and a couple of hours of reflection.
Among the highlights:
1) AK-47 as the real weapon of mass destruction
2) Africans stripping a plane overnight, literally pulling every piece of it off and making it "disappear"
3) There is one gun for every 12 people, the arms dealers goal is to arm the other 11 as quickly as possible
4) The top arms dealers ("merchants of death") are the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
I read more than I watch movies, and will end with two comments: a) all of my reading bears out the importance and relevance of this movie; and b) it is easily one of the more serious and appreciable movies I have seen in some time. The intellect in the devising and presentation of this movie is absolutely first rate.
Movie Review: Enter the mind of an arms trafficker
Summary: 5 Stars
Nicholas Cage does a dynamic job portraying Yuri Orlov, a lowly Brooklynite turned international arms trafficker in the thriller Lord of War. The timeline of the film starts as Orlov sells weaspons during the waning cold war years to Soviet strongmen, than he switches over to getting warlords and child soldiers as customers in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Eamonn Walker does an excellent job playing the sociopath Liberian president, Andre Baptiste Sr. Orlav makes it clear from the beginning of the film that he is a businessman. He doesn't care who gets guns; it matters more that they are using his products. "There are enough guns for one out of every twelve people in the world," said Orlov. "It is my job to get guns to the other eleven." Even when he is asked if guns are more dangerous than cigerettes, he states that at least guns have safety pins. Throughout the film Orlov has his family telling him that what he is doing is wrong. It is interesting to see if Orlov ever has a change of heart. Despite the fact that there are arms traffickers all over the world, it is hard to be mad at Orlov because many governements, such as China, Russia, France, UK and US allow these people to carry on their work. Coincidentally all the above countries are permanent members of the UN Security Council. This is a fascinating film for anyone interested films with socially redeeming value.Movie Review: Cage gives another terrific performance in Lord Of War...
Summary: 5 Stars
Nicolas Cage (Face/Off, Family Man, upcoming Weather Man) stars as Yuri Orlov, who is an arms dealer who sells guns to people in other countries....where their for he gets money. Along the while he has a brother named Vitaly, played nicely by Jared Leto (Alexander, Requiem For A Dream, Urban Legend) but here's the thing, Vitaly has a cocaine problem and tends to bring hooker like women around all the time. Leto helps his brother Cage in the business. Cage falls for once glamour modle Ava Fontaine, played by Bridget Moynahan (Sum Of All Fears, The Recruit), the fall in the love and have a kid named Nicky. Cage buys her nice things, clothes, jewerly in the process. Ethan Hawke (Assault On Precinct 13, Tape, Taking Lives) plays Agent Jack Valentine who will do anything to bring down Cage and him manufactoring guns...in which case it wont happen because there's a lot more people around the world who manufactor guns as well. Cage brings life to his performance in Yuri...terrific as always Cage is....and I dont think any other actor would be right for the role. In the same vein as Three Kings. One of the best movies of the year...right up there with Crash and Sin City...well, that's just me for ya anyway. Also starring Ian Holm (Lord OF The Rings Trilogy, Aviator).Movie Review: Very Good!
Summary: 5 Stars
Nicolas Cage delivers another smashing performance as Yuri, a gun runner who goes from small time arms dealing to supplying whole armies with instruments of death and destruction.
Cage is amazing in Lord of War as always. The genious behind Cage's acting comes from the fact that though we know his character is the embodiement of evil and that we SHOULD despise him, we dont. Its because of his character's wit, charisma, and intelligence. Intelligence stemming from the self knowledge that Yuri has; in knowing and understanding himself and ultimately in realizing he can't do a damn thing to change who he is.
This is why I loved this movie. It strayed from the Scarface plot formulae that movies like BLOW and other tales of The Rise and Fall of Some Power Hungry Fool stayed true to. In the last 10 minutes of the movie it dove into the realm of Shaymalan, where the unexpected twist took even me by surprise. And by the end of the movie, I saw what Lord of War was truly about. A critique of the way in which our world works, social commentary meets hollywood ala Hotel Rwanda, and an entertaining thrill ride thrown in for kicks.