A great and courageous movie about weapons traffic all around the world

Rating: 8/10 (13 January 2006)

Yuri is a young American man, emigrated from Ukraine, who decides to throw himself in the business of weapons traffic to make maximum amount of money to realize his dream to get marry with a beautiful young model, Ava. He is an ordinary man without unkindness but also without any moral sense. He sizes the opportunity of the end of the cold war between Western and Eastern nations to empty the ex-communist's arsenals and send all kind of weapons toward any potential clients, specially in Africa to arms as well official armies as rebels in the diverse countries were civil wars are active. At the beginning of his activities, he is helped by his brother and especially by a Ukrainian cousin, an ex-communist general. His business goes very well and he becomes rich and famous in spite of rivalry with another big gunrunner and the pursuit of a tenacious Interpol policeman, Jack Valentine. But, his relationship with the dictatorial and psychopathic president of Liberia will drag him into grave problems, causing the dead of his brother. The Interpol policeman, Jack Valentine, who have gathered evidences against him, succeed to arrest him. But, the political interests of the nations that maintain the international weapons traffic will be strongest and Yuri will be released. The movie is brilliantly made and very well played by Nicolas Cage. The description of the way of live in African countries is very impressive and the denunciation of the implication of politics in weapons traffic is very courageous. A very great film, indeed!