Nicolas Cage dodge a bullet here and made a really good important film.

Rating: 8/10 (17 February 2013)

The movie is so deep and really talks about a relevant issue in today's world. It's not like other brainless action movies out there that has the good guys that use guns blasting away bad guys. Director Andrew Nicol is a genius indeed. Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) is not the hero nor the villain in this movie, he sell guns both to the good guys and the bad guys because it's good for business. It's a balancing act for the film, trying not to be too preaching, but also to be entertaining enough to be a really informative groundbreaking movie about the morality issues of having guns. The whole movie borderlines the saying 's It True That A Man Who Has Everything Has Nothing' with it's main character, Yuri. Nicolas Cage was great as always but his character was a little bit selfish & arrogant. Some people may hate his character too much to care about his story. Throughout the movie, everyone he loves is either dead by guns or he is dead to them. The only "friends" he has now are his vile customers and his shadowy benefactors from the bigger more vulnerable merchants of death. Like the amazing life of the bullet opening of the movie, we see Yuri as a fast bullet type businessman going through piercing the heart of both his love ones such as his brother Vitaly Orlov (Jared Leto) and wife (Bridget Moynahan) and those trying to destroy him like rival arm dealer Simeon Weisz (Ian Holm) and Interpol agent Jack Valentine (Ethan Hawke). Jared Leto is great as Vitaly, a Jimmy Cricket's like character who serves as Yuri's conscience while suffering from yet another social issue: drugs. Bridget Moynahan gives her own, and delivers in what key scene in the buff no less. Ian Holm is chilling as the rival willing to do anything to be the top dog. Ethan Hawke is great as the pursuing boy scout with a code of honor to eliminate guns being sold. It was also funny how Yuri finds more elaborate ways of outwitting Jack Valentine throughout the film. The interrogation scene is one of the best. Key a eye on it, when watching. Still the image of the Interpol as an acting security agency is entirely fictional. Inspired by a true story, the movie go into great insight of world history with facts, by allow us the audiences to learn the in and outs of back-rooming arm-dealing during war conflicts. The locations were breath taking, and the strength of this film is the message its not just about guns, but also the fact we are a sad planet full of greedy homicidal people and if we don't change were going to become extinct. The ending is shocking, and I think it's importation for people to at less 'know that'. You might not like it, but the statement is true. Harsh critics of the movie will come to this point and find a way to ignored that fact due to feeling insulted. I find this habit of denial perhaps the most disturbing of humanity's flaws. It gets even scarier when you realize that you, yourself are guilty of it as a audience member cause you like watching violence movies. Humans are controlled by either greed or fear, and the movie shows that having firearms as inherently 'evil'. They have both given rise to oppression and birth to freedom. I guarantee you that people would still kill each other regardless if firearms exist or not. With that logic, sadly peace is really impossible. There will always be war and conflict as long as there is greed. Throughout the history of mankind its been this way. It's in man's nature to attempt to rule over one another, and by the end of Nicolas Cage little speech in the end. You would have to agree.