Lord Of War (DVD) Reviews

From the very beginning, LORD OF WAR opens with what is probably one of the best opening lines of a movie ever written; "There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?" Coupled with the opening credits sequence which ...

Plot Nicholas Cage plays Uri Orlov, an internation arms dealer who spends his time trading arms with mostly third world countries. He is constantly on the run from the law, but is very clever in his ways and gets himself out of trouble every time. He takes his brother with him as well, and they have become a great money-making team. It is a ...

The film stars Nicolas Cage as Uri Orlov an international arms dealer and effectively trivialises a serious subject. Writer-director Andrew Niccol charts his fictional career from small-time seller of M16s by the kilo to international arms merchant. Orlov isn't just the lead character - he's also the narrator somewhat in the style of Goodfellas ...

There are a number of people who seem to hate Nic Cage and likewise there are a lot of people who think he’s an incredibly talented actor. Personally I fall into the latter category and although I know at least half the people reading this will disagree with me, he is an actor I enjoy watching. Lord Of War was released last year and although I ...

“There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?” Major studios normally baulk when it comes to financing anything political. Such is the case with Lord of War, a film about global arms trading. Needless to say that ...

Lord of War allows Nicholas Cage to ply his trademark tough, quirky persona to the max. He plays Yuri, an American of Ukranian extraction, who decides that his career path, and his way out of Brighton Beach (the district of New York not the place on our coast!), will be as an arms dealer. He has no intention of spending his life ...

I watched this film with an open mind and had read reviews calling it 'gripping' and 'thought provoking' for me it was neither of these things. The story ambles along and is told from the view point of an arms dealer. The script is light-hearted and matter of the fact and as a watcher, it is very difficult to actually have any interest ...