Great movie. Leaves you in shock&awe while rocking and rollin'.

Rating: 8/10 (1 May 2006)

Lord of War starts off as a biography. Quicker than you can say 'Abraham Lincoln', it pulls you into a world where morals are just in the way of making a huge buck and where that money is to be made because of other nation's wars. Yuri Orlov (Nicholas Cage) plays a decent Ukrainian immigrant who runs guns with his brother. He comes face to face with some of the world's most brutal dictators, and sells kalashnikovs by the thousand knowing they'll be operated by children. The moral issue goes down as easily as Yuri's career into the world of guntrafficing. It hits you like a bucket of cold water unexpectedly thrown over your head, and contains moral questions like in 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind' and 'Old Boy'. This time it's not up to the viewer to judge. You just sit back and enjoy the ride, in the end being left with more questions than answers.
This is a great movie for everyone who takes all the wrongs in this world as a given. If you consider yourself to be naive, think twice before you put that shiny disc into your DVD player. Else, sit back and enjoy the bloodbath.