Important, brilliant, disgusting

Rating: 10/10 (28 November 2005)

You know how when you watch a regular American action movie and you think that the morals of the hero are stupid? Sometimes you even wish that the "bad guy" would win. Well, this movie meets half way. The main character, Yuri Orlov, is not a nice guy. He is an arms dealer who deals weapons illegally to war lords. As a matter of fact he IS the "bad guy" in the movie. Not the BADDEST guy. The real bad guys are, of course, the warlords(the warlord in Liberia is particularly nasty). You don't see much of the good guy in this movie. Anyway, the good guys name is Jack Valentine. His mission in life is to stop guys like Yuri. The best and most realistic aspect of this movie is that no one wins. I'm not going to offer any spoilers. Let's just leave it at that. In a way, you can say that the bad guy wins. But he is a REALLy bad guy; you don't want people like that winning anything. After seeing the movie I realized that it's probably one of the most important movies of the year. The movie disgusted me. Why? Because it is, as it says in the closing credits "based on actual events".