The Poorest Of The Smuggler Films

Rating: 2/10 (8 May 2020)

We get a lot of movies about protagonists who smuggle drugs, guns, or some other such thing. There's a host of those films to choose from.
This is the single worst one I've seen.
Mainly because as we follow the story of our gun smuggler, we see the aftermath of his successes constantly. We never actually see them.
At all times the story tells us he set this up, and now he has this going, and now he's selling to these people, and those people.
But we rarely see how these things came to be. We aren't shown HOW he became more and more successful in his career, just that he did.
Most of the time these kinds of films follows the intricate details of how a person rises in the smuggling profession. This one absolutely does not.
Nicholas Cage does a voice over for most of the film, talking over the film, telling you things you should have seen in the film. But did not.
You'll see him do the occasional gun sell, or walk around and look at items he intends to purchase or sell while his voice over tells you how he got to this point. That's 90% of the film. It's the poor man's smuggler film. There are many, many better ones for you to choose from.