Was this a movie or a documentary???

Rating: 6/10 (27 September 2005)

I recently saw Lord of War and must admit I was a little underwhelmed. I will admit that the facts given in the movie were quite interesting. But it seemed almost like a public service announcement. Too much of it was aimed to be educational not entertaining.
The story or concept would have made a great documentary, it would have even made a good feature film but in my opinion the writer/director didn't commit enough in either direction. To me there wasn't much of a story at all, nothing to make the audience emotionally tied to any of the characters. It seems as though the writer had all of these "neat" facts he wanted to include in the film and was so excited about those facts that he never realized that he had forgotten to include much of an actual story to keep the audience involved.
Just like other documentaries there is no need to run out and see this while it is still in theaters. You can definitely wait until its out on DVD.