Artistically beautiful

Rating: 8/10 (3 March 2013)

Lord of War is cartoonish movie with a serious message delivered with dark comedy, exaggerated scenes, and wonderfully artistic visuals.
All in all it's a good film to educate people on the morality of arms dealing and give you a very broad brush caricatured look at the practice. In reality someone of Yuri's level would never, ever leave his city, let alone ever meet his clients in person- Those people have middlemen up the wazoo... but by illustrating a direct connection it gets the point across easier.
Some negatives- His pretty-boy brother was a little too much. The collapse of the sweet, innocent, handsome blue-eyed boy because of the bad things his nasty big brother Yuri did was simply over-egging the pudding. Also, the scene with Yuri's wife finding out "the truth" in the "wife discovering the Other Woman" type fashion was a bit TOO silly.