One Of Cage's best movies!

Rating: 10/10 (3 November 2005)

**** out of ****
Let me tell you that this movie is one of the best I've seen this year. Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's the type of performer who for me is one of the best: just the ones who can act expressing themselves in a very convincing way, not only by facial expressions or body language, but also by very strong lines throughout the entire movie. His narration is amazing. He plays Yuri Orlov, an arms dealer, who although risks his life very often (he travels to many distant and dangerous places including many locations from the east lands and even finds himself locked up in a room with two hookers, with no rubber and in a country where 25% of the people is infected with AIDS), is lucky at being good at it, since he gains money, has a beautiful wife and a son.
Like said before, most of the film is narrated by Cage. Even by paying attention to the self limit, it's not possible to absorb all of the great lines in this movie, and I must say I need to watch it again, however I won't pay to go to the theaters again, I'll wait it on DVD... The movie is about the life of an arms dealer, the difficulties of it, the advantages of a life like his own, consequences, and most important thing of all: not only a visionary movie about weapons, wars, injustice and etc., but, at the same time, a masterpiece of a protest, like a slap on the faces of the government people, or even, as the beginning of the movie suggests, a bullet in the head.
The cast includes actors like Jared Leto, who plays Orlov's brother, who, although is not an arms dealer like his older brother, do other acts in the movie that helps us see another point of view, which is very interesting, since we don't get bored just with the main plot of the movie. Bridget Moynahan plays Cage's wife in a much better role than hers in I, Robot (not that it means it was bad, not at all) and Ian Holm, who I admire since the good old times of Alien.
For people who didn't like the movie (like I checked on the IMDb's forum, this movie is for people who pay attention, have good tastes in movies' genres, not for people who aren't grown enough to see this movie's qualities yet).