best movie of 2005

Rating: 10/10 (12 December 2005)

Wow. Splendid. Just splendid.
The movie is, as some of you would have figured out, about weapons trafficking. And yet it's not the typical weapons of mass destruction. It's guns, and all sorts of them.
Nicholas Cage starts off by saying that there are 550 million weapons around the world, which gives one out of every 12 people a weapon. He then asks, how can we give the other 11 weapons as well?
Basically that's the main theme of this thought-provoking movie. A disgruntled employee tries to be the number-one global weapons dealer, selling weapons all around the world (from Africa to Latin America and the Middle East). The movie trails his Machiavellan life, one that is purely about making money no matter what the costs are. You witness what happens with his family, the people he works with, his several close calls with the interpol.
Some of the ways he tries to rationalize his "career" make you think, but then this is not a light movie that is meant to be seen and forgotten.
The acting is superb. Cage and Ethan make a good combination (reminded me of the combination of DeNiro and Pacino in "Heat"). Some of the CGI work is pretty good as well. The plot and dialogue were simply amazing.
In the end, does evil prevail? See for yourself.