You are unwillingly (masterfully) forced to root for an addict of evil... A Pleasant Abberation Among Mainstream Modern Films.

Rating: 9/10 (9 April 2006)

(I put no spoilers, but if you read this, you will probably be able to predict the ending as the movie ends.)
A Pleasant Abberation Among Mainstream Modern Films.
This is among the few movies where I could not predict the ending 100%. You can say that, it just ends, but it's also among the few where you are satisfied with the abrupt (or, well, not so abrupt, but it kind of felt abrupt) ending.
Lord of War was a really well done film. Aside from its too-political ending, the movie as a whole was really well done. Compare the protagonist and his brother, what they do, who they are, and how they end up.
Who's the real "coke addict?"
LoW starts out GREAT, you root for the fun "Bad Guy, who is probably, actually a good guy (like in gone in 60 seconds)." Turns out, this "Bad guy" is the true, hardcore bad guy. At the movie's end, you just realized you've been rooting for the TRUE evil guy of the movie all along.
It's the ONLY flick that made me think that he wasn't the bad guy at first, and at the end, he turned out to be the bad guy that you want to hate. But due to the character development and events through the movie, you couldn't help but fall for the bad guy. I felt deceived at the end. I felt wonderfully satisfied to be deceived; satisfied that I was deceived to root for the genuine enemy we were all raised to despise.