Fun and Funny

Rating: 8/10 (10 February 2006)

Lord of War is a fun, often hilarious, and uncompromising look at the life of a gun runner named Yuri Urlsov. He narrates his tale from his late teens to late forties. He starts out a amateur gunrunner who just sells to the punks and the mob in his area of Brooklyn. It takes him several years but before long he is selling bigger guns to bigger people, and by the late eighties he is on a first name basis with all the major warlords(Or Lords of War) in the world. He doesn't take sides and will not just sell weapons to two people who are killing each other but will sell them to people planning to attack his own country. He has Interpol agent who knows he is doing something wrong but can't prove it so follows him attempting to catch him red-handed. His name is Jack Valentine and is played wonderfully by Ethan Hawke. Speaking of performances Nicolas Cage is wonderful. He manages to make you believe he is all the age's he goes through in the film without a pile of make up to make him really look it. Jared Lito on the other hand is horrible and it is impossible for you to believe he is one of the age's much less all of them. The direction is very good as is the screenplay and visual effects. A very good film that is both hilarious and disturbing.