Standards of propaganda are falling

Rating: 6/10 (23 May 2006)

This action movie is very professionally done. The actors are pretty, the acting is quite convincing.
However, this movie is a piece of anti-war propaganda and should be, in my opinion, treated as such. From this point of view, I am compelled to say, it does not achieve a high standard which can be expected from a movie which should force people to believe that the world arms trade and the illegal smuggling of weapons are evil. I have seen Soviet propaganda films ten times more convincing that this one. One scene, only a minute long, in the film Underground by Emir Kusturica shows the ugliness of profiting from selling weapons better than the whole 122 min of the Lord of War. Instead of standing on the shoulders of giants, the producers of this movie put themselves into a trench of a very predictable action flick containing a "moral story".
And don't get me started on a political correctness angle :> It seems that the producers tried not to upset anyone except "certified" villains. Oh no, they don't want controversy. Ha! A good propaganda movie should be provocative, not a baby milk formula like this movie.