A Muddle or Fusion of Genre Movie

Rating: 6/10 (23 January 2019)

29 January 2006. Depending on one's reaction, Lord of War is either a muddled attempt at addressing an important social issue using a barrage of different movie genres to create a politically safe movie or a fusion of delicately balanced movie approaches (genre) to create a sensitive look at arms dealing. It's difficult to classify this movie - a wry, dark comedy action thriller drama? What holds this movie together instead of falling apart among a multitude of movie genres that almost amount to an overload of movie approaches that almost don't deliver is Nicholas Cage and his voice over and his character that like Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector, is this dirtbag that you can for some mysterious reason still like.
Throughout this movie there are glimpses of various movie genres that if had been specifically used by themselves could have made this movie a much more focused powerful comedy or drama or political drama or relational drama, an action, or political thriller, or crime drama, or an adventure movie any of which might have been even better than what was ultimately presented on screen. Six out of Ten Stars