Enjoyed Cage, the dark humour and wow that opening sequence

Rating: 8/10 (24 September 2014)

This was a good movie immediately sucking me in with that opening credits sequence "the life of a bullet" Wow! Very cool and unique but still...
Lord of War felt original but I guess you could compare it to any of those episodic rise and fall of the (good) bad guy movies; Scarface, Blow, American Gangster.
Apparently based on real events it sees Nicholas Cage playing Ukrainian immigrant Yuri Orlov who becomes an international arms dealer, trying to stay one step ahead of the law and ultimately confronting the morality of his work as he is chased around the world by an Interpol agent (Ethan Hawke).
The story covers many years and locations and is one of Cage's better roles even though he again plays a sardonic somewhat emotionless character. I liked him though and enjoyed the dark humour, especially in his narration. Jared Leto plays his brother, I always like him, so not much to say there, nice eye candy.
The ending, regarding "the voice" (Donald Sutherland) and who he represents is pretty brilliant. 9/3/14