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Lord of War

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United States, Germany, France · 2005
Rated R · 2h 2m
Director Andrew Niccol
Starring Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Ethan Hawke
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller

Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.

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L.A. Weekly by

Incorporating surrealist humor and an ironic patina, Lord of War tries for irreverent satire, but the film (and especially Cage) is too muted and distant.

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Village Voice by Jessica Winter

Niccol's fatal error is in making the protagonist at once amoral and insipid, an admixture thickened by Cage's loquacious yet stoned voice-over and Moynahan's moist-eyed tremblings as the trophy wife.

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The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

Lord Of War charges bravely and relentlessly into volatile territory, and it's hard to leave unscarred by the experience.

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Variety by Robert Koehler

Brimming with cinematic confidence, cynicism, chutzpah plus dramatic bungles, Andrew Niccol's ambitious Lord of War views today's international arms trade through its anti-hero.

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Dallas Observer by Robert Wilonsky

It's this moralizing, this slamming down of a stop sign every time the movie wants to rev its engines, that keeps Lord of War from being great. But it's three-fourths of a great movie, if nothing else, it has more brains and balls than most studio releases, for which it's to be commended and recommended.

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Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

A black comedy, a character study, and a thriller, Lord of War lacks the gritty, hell-bent hilarity of David O. Russell's contemporary war pic, "Three Kings."

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