I don't want to be remembered at all. That means I'm dead.

Rating: 9/10 (23 May 2007)

I watched two Cage films the other night. This was one that I had not seen previously. It was an extremely good satire about the arms business.
That was the point of the film. Selling arms does not have a moral component. It is a business. After all, the United States is the biggest arms merchant in the world. We end up disarming countries of arms that we provided. Or arms we provided comes back to be used against us later.
Nicolas Cage was brilliant in this film. He was cool and calm and just what I would expect of an arms merchant. After the cold war ends, he immediately realizes that he can get access to Russian stockpiles and make a fortune.
Of course, Ethan Hawke is trying to prevent him from making all that money, but Cage is just too cool. He wins every time.
I don't think the film could be summed up better than when Cage tells an audience, "I never sold to Osama Bin Laden. Not on moral grounds, but because his checks were always bouncing back then."