Unconvincing

Rating: 3/10 (9 July 2006)

Being a gun nut I was told I would love this movie. I didn't. The movie tries to make you believe it knows guns or politics or both but it knows neither. Reminds me of a poser dropping names to appear to know something. Cage's character never for a moment made me be think he was doing anything other than reading a script. And a bad script at that. It does not try to tell a story but rather it tries to make a point. The point was simple and shallow did not even try to imagine the complexities of the modern world. So much more could have been done. I watch movies to be entertained not to be preached at. One of it's worst points is how easy Cage's character went from working in his fathers restaurant to being a big time arms dealer with no more cleverness than to hand someone a envelope of cash.
It has high ratings and a lot of people liked it but I can't imagine why.