A rare movie with a message

Rating: 8/10 (29 December 2005)

This is the story of a small-town man bored with his simple life. He decides to sell firearms and begins as a very small criminal and eventually escalates into a worldwide gun-running expert, the man to call if you need guns. But as he does this, he slowly loses all his ethics and eventually loses touch with all reality, all that he is doing. He only concentrates on doing what he is best at: selling guns. This is the powerful message carried behind this film. That this is actually happening.
It begins in a very poignant collage of the life of a bullet, from regular metal made into a bullet, shipped to a country, hauled somewhere else, goes into a gun which shoots someone. Another of the better shots of the movie that conveys the message is the dismantling of an unattended plane when it crashes in the middle of Africa. And, of course, I couldn't go this whole review without mentioning Nicholas Cage. The man is in top form in this movie, pulling off the unattached man with a conscience effortlessly. He really adds so much to this movie; it truly wouldn't be the same without him.
This film uses fantastic acting and a good story to get the message across. The message that people like Cage's character are doing this every day, and that there is really nothing that you can do to stop them. There will always be customers and there will always be people to sell to them, whatever the costs.