LORD OF WAR
DVD
A bullet is manufactured, packaged, sold, shipped, smuggled, lost, found, loaded, and shot into a person's head.
It's an inventive opening to the movie, dealing with Nicholas Cage's gun-running in the Cold War and after. Not high on moral value, except that perhaps giving people the means to kill each other is not the most noble of professions, it is a disturbing look at what happened specifically after the fall of the USSR and how all those cold war weapons vanished into third world countries.
It's one of those movies where you root for the bad guy because he's really the best person you have to root for. Would you rather root for the ruthless competition that car-bombs people, or the oppressive president of Liberia? Thought not.
It's not that inventive, but it's entertaining ... and recently, we can't really ask anything else from Nic Cage.
Rent it if - you like guns.
Buy it if - if you really like guns.
A bullet is manufactured, packaged, sold, shipped, smuggled, lost, found, loaded, and shot into a person's head.
It's an inventive opening to the movie, dealing with Nicholas Cage's gun-running in the Cold War and after. Not high on moral value, except that perhaps giving people the means to kill each other is not the most noble of professions, it is a disturbing look at what happened specifically after the fall of the USSR and how all those cold war weapons vanished into third world countries.
It's one of those movies where you root for the bad guy because he's really the best person you have to root for. Would you rather root for the ruthless competition that car-bombs people, or the oppressive president of Liberia? Thought not.
It's not that inventive, but it's entertaining ... and recently, we can't really ask anything else from Nic Cage.
Rent it if - you like guns.
Buy it if - if you really like guns.
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