Cage deserves better than that

Rating: 1/10 (17 July 2006)

Finally I've seen LORD OF WAR. I wanted to see it since it was released in France back in May. What a piece of trash! It lacks any dramatic credibility, its plot is incoherent (if there is one), its characters are one-dimensional, and its dialogs are tacky and stale. Syriana next to it is a major masterpiece! I don't know if I should do a review, but just to say that the devil, as we know, is in details, and the details are not at all Niccol's strong point. There is not such a thing as Interpol agents (contrary to the popular myth perpetuated by Hollywood and Ethan Hawke) - Interpol is an information clearing house located in Lyon, France, staffed with international bureaucrats and directed by a former NYU law professor. Soviet (Ukrainian) Jews on Brighton Beach couldn't care less about Ukraine - the cradle of East European anti- Semitism (as Yuri Orlov's younger drug addict brother who nostalgically makes the map of Ukraine out of cocaine), and Orlov is not a Jewish name. In fact, Yuri Orlov is the name of the Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki group in the 1970s. Gunrunning may be a mortal sin, but spreading ignorance by making big-budget pretentious B-movies with Nikolas Cage, is almost as bad. If anything, Cage deserves better than that!