Nice ripoff of a 31 years old Alberto Sordi flick.

Rating: 5/10 (17 September 2005)

OK everybody, this was a nice movie with some interesting insight and commentary on the subject. The best part was Cage's performance, as mostly everything else is ripped off from a thirty years old Italian film called "Finche' c'e' guerra c'e' speranza" (While There's War There's Hope) with Alberto Sordi. Obviously 99.9 percent of the viewing public in the US ignores it and thinks "wow, how do they come up with these ideas in Hollywood?", well, that's how, they take an old European or Asian movie and they copy every aspect of it (aside of the FX and fancy camera work) and they sell it as brand new, without giving the original any credit. Way to go Andrew Niccol, this guy has been ripping off other's ideas since Gattaca, with "Lord of war" he has outdone himself.