One of Cage's best movies.

Rating: 7/10 (8 June 2010)

The film follows the story of Yuri, a anonymous person turned into a successful arms dealer. He participated in some of the most iconic moments of the past few years (The cold war, third world countries oppression wars, etc.), selling guns to all parties, it didn't matter if they were his friends enemies or allies. The money was the only thing that matters.
Yuri was a remorseless, but successful merchant. When it came down to business, he was certainly good. But his successful career took tolls on his family. We see that and many other events in Yuri's life through Nick's narration.
The story was really good for me. The acting too. It was a smart move to hire Nick for this movie, and Jared, Hawke and Bridget were pretty good as well. On the other hand, the script felt a little tacky for me, but it was good. I felt entertained during the whole movie. There were plenty of good scenes, and overall the movie was very amusing.
I respect Cage a lot, but he played some really bad roles in the past few years. Nowadays it seems like he tries to be part of bad movies. This is the exception (National Treasure was good also).
This movie might not be the most accurate motion picture in terms of reality (There aren't Interpol agents that travel in third world countries to seek relative small arms dealers, etc.), but as entertainment, it was great.
I recommend this film because of its good storytelling, good actors and pretty decent plot.