Lord of War

I don’t really like Nicholas Cage as an actor. He’s pretty wooden and he seems to only have two ‘modes’: ‘confused’ and ‘shouting’. In this film he uses the former to sleep walk through most of what is an excruciatingly boring film, slogging his way from one scene to the next in what felt like an eternal march towards the predictable moral ending.

‘Lord of War’ is the story of an American/Ukrainian arms dealer who starts small and works his way up through the 80’s and 90’s. Along the way he explains why and who and what, setting up the viewer for what is probably supposed to be the shocking revelation that guns kill people and that the five permanent members of the Security Council are the five largest manufacturers and sellers of weapons. The story is dull, uninspiring and predictable. It attempts to be unbiased but fails leaving the viewer in little doubt who the ‘bad guys’ of the modern world must be.