Lord of War

Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2012)

From writer (The Truman Show, The Terminal) director (Gattaca, In Time) Andrew Niccol, I may have watched a few minutes of the beginning of this film once or twice and got bored quickly, so I wanted for once to watch the whole lot and make a full opinion. Basically set in the 1980's in Little Odessa, this is the story of the rise and fall of Ukrainian immigrant Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) who is an arms dealer and sells guns and some other weapons with his brother Vitaly (Jared Leto). It is entering the early 1990's his business partnership with an African warlord and dictator Andre Baptiste Senior (Eamonn Walker) and his psychotic son Andre Baptiste Junior (Sammi Rotibi) is formed. We also see the personal life Yuri, a rocky relationship with his drug taking brother, famous model Ava Fontaine (Bridget Moynahan) marrying him, being relentlessly pursued by determined federal agent Jack Valentine (Ethan Hawke) and battling with his demons of immorality, i.e. whether he is personally causing more wars and deaths in the world with his business. Also starring Sir Ian Holm as Simeon Weisz, Jasper Lenz as Gregor, Kobus Marx as Boris and Donald Sutherland as Colonel Oliver Southern. Cage gives a relatively alright performance as the provider of things that cause so much devastation and destruction in the world, and the supporting stars do fine as well, but I will be honest, if it was meant to be funny in places as well I did not find myself laughing very much, I did not find much of it thrilling or that interesting either, the stuff about weapon smuggling and selling and whatever is okay, and there were some scenes with gunfire and fighting, but it was not enough to keep me gripped, I just found the film mostly boring and easy to doze off in, a disappointing black comedy action thriller. Adequate!