One of Cages better ones.

Rating: 8/10 (2 May 2019)

It is indeed quite easy to poke fun at some of the cages more laughably bad roles that he has taken as of late. However, all the memes and the like should never take away from the fact that he can actually be a good actor sometimes, hell, even a damn great one, like he is in this.
This film follows the life of a Ukrainian man who sells guns to various dictators and militants and eventually becomes the main financier of bloodshed and combat in many warring countries. Knowing that it is easy to see his character as irredeemably evil. He sells these weapons with full knowledge innocent people will likely die because of it and does it anyway, he sees it as a business. That's what makes him that much more of an interesting character. He sees the prospect of arms dealing as a pure money making affair, with no attached desire to get involved with any of the conflict that makes his business necessary. He goes from country to country, getting all down in the nit and grit of the monstrosities and genocides committed, and still leaves with the cash and returns home to great riches and a loving family.
This is a pure character study of a film. It takes us through the eyes of cages character, who also narrated the film. We see his many complexes on how he believes arms dealers may be the only thing keeping a sort balance. How they may be more genuine then some prompted legal businesses. It has a good deal of violence and depravity to it, but also intrigue. This all comes down to cages brilliant performance, all the levels of cleverness and precision that make him fun to watch, and the rest of the movie, right along with all the uncomfortable states it outs you in and the questions it makes you ask there.