A very good movie for its class.

Rating: 7/10 (6 February 2006)

This is a movie about Nicholas Cage being a weapon merchant. He is doing business with the most atrocious dictators and tyrants in the world and he has no regrets, because he is actually good at it. As a technical guy, I can relate to that. Ethan Hawke makes a remarkably small role in this movie as the idealistic Interpol agent.
What is nice about Lord of War is that it shows that a man can do wrong things without actually meaning harm as well as doing harm without doing the wrong things. What is not nice is that is shows a birds eye view of something that is anything but comfy and something to feel good about. It's similar to that scene in Syriana where the rookie Intelligence officer is destroying a car with a missile by using a joystick in the CIA headquarters. Is that the world view of Americans, I wonder?
In rest, it is a well done movie, worth seeing, and maybe even able to start some discussions about the nature of morality.