Lords of war starring
Nicolas Cage, ared Leto and Ethan Hawke follows a globetrotting arms dealer career as he poses to be the door way onto the end of the Cold War and the emergence of worldwide terrorism. But just before his eyes he is confronted with the morality of his work.
Lord Of War drops the hammer slowly, laying out the fascinating parameters of Cage's world before opening up its argument in an astonishing denouement.
Eye for Film
July 10, 2007
Satire is rarely so hard-hitting, or high calibre.
A carefully choreographed devil's dance in which Nicolas Cage finds fleet-footed rejuvenation as a man aware evil can't exist without good, but that evil often wins. This uniquely unsympathetic, world-weary film earns the right to fling that truth.
Even though Niccol sometimes puts unnecessary homilies in the mouths of his characters, he mostly pulls off the tricky feat of being direct and breezy at the same time. "Lord of War" skims along like a dance routine.
Niccol is no stranger to hot-button issues, but he outdoes his previous efforts by injecting this satire of war profiteering in the Halliburton age with a wicked arsenic wit.
