Lord Of War (2005)
The crime drama follows the life of outcast Yuri Orlov, his arm deal career and how he exposed his world to the uprising of worldwide terrorism.
23 January 1960, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
7 November 1972, Goshen, New York, USA
6 November 1970, Austin, Texas, USA
26 December 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 March 1978, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
5 June 1978, Czechoslovakia
17 July 1935, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
July 14, 2007
I'm beginning to get discouraged about Andrew Niccol.July 10, 2007
Satire is rarely so hard-hitting, or high calibre.May 26, 2007
This film fails so miserably don't be surprised to find yourself often rooting against the supposed good guy.September 19, 2008
A fine, grown-up movie, half thriller, half black comedy.September 24, 2005
A caustic satire masquerading as an action adventure.September 19, 2010
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.September 20, 2005
A raffishly ironic and insinuating movie -- and probably the most sheerly enjoyable film of the year so far.October 07, 2006
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.March 11, 2008
The movie ultimately crushes itself in a vise of self-loathing.September 26, 2005
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.September 16, 2005
There are the makings here of a really good feature or an even better documentary, but as it stands, Lord of War is not quite either.August 16, 2007
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.