Doesn't Quite Make The Sale

Rating: 5/10 (31 July 2010)

I like Nicholas Cage enough to have suffered through some of his worst films. While this is not the worst one, it is also not the best. The film makers here are trying to tell a true story. They just forget that to tell a true story, you need to tell the truth & make it in a documentary style. This comes close, but does not achieve that level.
Cage plays a gun runner who is one of the biggest ones on the International Arms dealer stage. Trouble is between his narration & interruptions in the story, very few people get too act much. The best acting job scary as it might seem goes to the actor who plays the President (Dictator) of Liberia.
There is a fair amount of realism & story telling here. There are points where Cage narration contains elements of facts. The question is considering the subject matter- where have the film makers been allowed to tell the truth & where did they have to lie. It is hard for me as a viewer to tell because the looking glass we are being taken through is a gray & shadowy world with little public knowledge that a viewer can relate too.
I give them credit for trying.