This movie is lost time and overrated. I saw the first half hour and I am particularly annoyed that you have to accept everything for true. The structure of the story is miserable. The main character played by Nicolas Cage sells weapons but it is not clear where they come from. He has customers all over the world from shadowy areas to which he can deliver weapons. Never is clear how he get this customers. He has an unstable brother with whom he cooperates and who can not bear the wealth when they have succes. He goes to the coke and then goes downhill with him. He tries to help him with a lot of tearjerking brotherlove. An other thing, he gets a handsome woman who does not find his work completely pure and suffers from remorse. This problem also must be resolved. In short, this movie has a machine gun fire of clichés whereby the critical film viewer has dropped out before the end

Lord Of War ... (An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an Interpol agent) ... Let Me Start By Saying That I Think For A Nicholas Cage Drama This Is The Highest Rating I Have Ever Given One Of His Movies ... Starting With The Opening Song In The Movie To The Very First Death Of The Movie, This Movie Clearly Tells You Ahead Of Time "You Are Not Going To Like What You Are About To Learn" ... Cage Is An (Illegal) Arms Dealer That Works His Way To The Top Of The Industry ... Alone The Way Cage Spouts Off All Kinds Of Information About Weapons (Having Checked Myself, All Facts Were True As Of The Release Of The Movie "2005"), Numbers And Facts That Will Turn Your Head Around ... In Essences Cage Takes Us Not Only Through The Story Of Yuri's (Cage's Role) Life But The Story Of Arms Dealing As Well ... Cage Is Brilliant In The Role Of A Man Who Faces And Is Devastated By The Loses His Career Choices Have Cost Him And Yet For Some Reason Continues To Do As He Says "What I Know To Do" ... This Movie Takes Us Around The World Showing Us "The High Life" Of The Successful Arms Dealer And The Devastation Of A Successful Arms Deal ... The Last Few Minutes Of The Movie We See In Cage's Face The The Soul Of A Man Who Is Convinced That He Can Not Go To Hell For What He Is Doing, Since He Is Already There ... This Movie Is Brilliant And Also Very Frightening ...

This film, allegedly based (very lightly) on actual events, tells the story of a Russian-American gun dealer and confronts the immorality of the war and arm business. It would even be depressing if it weren't ironic. Irony is the key to perceive the taunts of a film that takes for granted the inevitability of violence: just like food, death is a human need and man will always feel the urge to kill his fellow man. This provocation is the starting point for a trip to the world of arms trafficking, through the eyes of a trafficker who has surely killed more people than a nuclear bomb and who seems to live in a parallel reality. For him, the death of a child-soldier is sad, but its worse if its with arms purchased from the competition. All this shows us that this is a sarcastic movie, but with little drama and no characters that we can enjoy.As far as actors are concerned, the film is based on a good performance by Nicholas Cage, perhaps one of his best film performances to date. He is not one of the actors that I particularly like, so I was surprised to have liked his work here. The rest of the cast merely seeks to support him with poorly structured and developed characters. Jared Leto was a casting error.

No doubt Nicolas Cage gives his performance in this film the best since "Leaving Las Vegas". This is also the best appearance to date of Bridget Moinhan former model who plays his wife. Ninety-nine percent of American films there are dozens of people killed if not millions but never have a face. In this film Andrew Niccol makes sure we know who those bullets hitting. The balls have a face in this film and face are usually innocent women and children. After this film you'll get heavy hearts and understanding the arms trade will never stop as long as the governments of the industrialized countries can make a few bucks. Those weapons will find their way to get into the hands of bin Laden or Hezbollah and the cycle of violence will probably never stop.this is an amazing film with very strong and sharp criticism of the relationship of some Arab states recognized weapons to enemies of their enemies. warmly recommended.