Simply Great

Rating: 10/10 (1 June 2007)

not sure if i'll manage to describe this great movie accurately - i'm always better in complaining about things i don't like ...
a movie about an arms dealer on the surface, there is so much more which lurks below.
it talks about hypocrisy, about the exploitation of the third world, about big powers politics, about humans, lost in this human-created system ...
this movie dares to say things which many newspapers dare not name, has strong positions on many important questions, shows us a world we desperately try not to see.
the cast is great and this is easily Cages best role. no one else could be as magnificent in this role, handle the sarcasm with such an ease, be so human and so lost. whatever happens in this movie, you simply can't hate him for this, for he is a victim himself. and he even kind of knows this.
the story and character development are wonderfully done, beautifully acted. it all feels somehow so real.
of course you have to care about such things to like the movie - if you expect an action movie, it will disappoint you. watch it if you want to see how a fragment of our world really looks like.
and no, this movie is not really like Syriana - this movie is simply so much better you can't compare them. it dares to say and show more, it looks better, it has interesting characters and it doesn't miss the point.
--- Yuri Orlov: "You know who's going to inherit the world? Arms dealers. Because everyone else is too busy killing each other."