Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

kellyf-30288 Lord of War is a great movie. Everything from the stunning opening credit sequence which features the journey of a bullet to the proceedings till the credits roll is a joy to behold. It also proves that under the right supervision Nicholas Cage is an actor you cannot take your eyes off from. Lord of War is a crime drama war film with great set pieces and a heart in the right place. Go watch it.

shanshan298 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.

mgruebel This film is rather hard to classify. Is it a black comedy? A pseudo documentary? A war film? A drama that studies a really cold-blooded character who does what he does "because he does it best?" I finally settled on Mockumentary.Yet Nicholas Cage pulls it off. He is the most cold-blooded SOB one can imagine: the combination to the container filled with weapons to kill thousands is the birth date of his son. In the end, his brother rebels while they deliver arms, after he sees soldiers hack a woman and child to death with machetes. When the soldiers negotiating the arms deal mow Cage's brother down with machine guns, Cage continues negotiating: why get himself killed, too?It's hard to imagine someone like that can exist, but after all, Cage is just a bigger version of the machete-wielders. And according to the film, just poppycocks compared to the presidents of the US, Russia, France etc, who deal in arms and destruction on a yet greater scale.Indeed at the end of the film, just like these leaders of entire countries, Cage is "too big to fail." He laughs in the face of the justice department agent who captured him with solid evidence in hand, and wants to put Cage behind bars for good. Cage explains to him with a smile what is really going to happen once he leaves the room, and so it does.At which point we return to Cage as the narrator, full circle with the beginning of the film, except now we get to see what makes the crunching sound under his shoes: millions of bullets, just like the one that we followed from manufacture to the skull of a child in the opening credits.The film certainly preaches, but in a way so absurd, matter-of-fact and darkly comedic that it does not appear heavy-handed, merely unbelievable. And yet we know all too well that the events we see in the film, the useless maiming and killing of millions, happened. And the arms to do the deed did come from somewhere.The film sometimes descends into mocking itself, at other times the pieces fall into place too conveniently, so it remains merely very good. But well worth watching, even if you're not into conspiracy theories.

Kushal Arora It starts as a promising movie. Nicolas Cage as Yuri leaves a good impression at the beginning and it looks like on of those black comic films which do highlight a serious problem but doesn't take themselves too seriously. Something like Wolf of Wall Street. At the beginning it had that feel, but overdoes of morality and a sense of leaving a message at the end killed the movie. Somewhere along the way writer developed a sense of morality and abruptly tries to change the track which does effect the story line and kill it. There seems to be a rush to end the film that too at a very different note where it started i.e. making an un-apologetic gum smuggler feel guilty. If don well and more gradually it might have worked, but the way all of a sudden, a wife that never questioned her husband's source of money developing a sense of morality, killing his brother to bring a scenario of doom seemed like an afterthought. The worst were last 10 mins in which the power of his connections is exhibited. Overall well acted movie with good dialogs and good first half but weak ending to the story which kills the movie