Very good story of an arms dealer hurt by occasional preaching

Rating: 7/10 (10 October 2005)

Nick Cage is an arms dealer who tells us about his life and how the world, and his conscious has changed over time.
This is a wonderfully made film. Its witty, well acted and contains some technically brilliant shots and sequences. This is a film thats a kick in the head and forces you to think about what people like Cage's character are doing to the world. Cage gives a wonderful performance as a man who begins doing something no one else is and manages to make enough money he can get everything he ever wanted,However he never expected it to weigh so heavily on his soul. The film does a great job of showing the truly bizarre world that Cage inhabits. Its all food for thought.
Unfortunately the film often undermines itself by being overly preachy with too many passages that are about the statistics of what the weapons are doing to our world. There are too many times where in the name of expediency people talk about what all of the weapons are doing, as if the story itself isn't enough proof.
I liked this movie a great deal, the problem is that I wanted to like it more. Its one of those films thats really good but which has something keeping it from being great.
Definitely worth trying at some point.