Lord of War was on in the lobby so I sat my braindead self down and watched. Reactions:
If you skip all the love/sex scenes, which we did, it's a good film. That said, I have some gripes. One I'm going to bother with here is the attempt at the end of the film to claim that he was somehow serving the US Govt in his dealings, with US made weapons, because he was dealing in AK-47s, which are (brace yourself) a Soviet design. Perhaps they left out details or something, but in any case, that was odd. Bigger gripe: casting the USA and the other permanent members of the UN Security Council as the biggest suppliers of weapons and munitions worldwide. The film goes whacked on crack at the end. I can think of a couple of ways it could have better served its (IMO, misguided) mission.
On the whole, if you like a good Cage film and you want to look past the incoherencies and skip the sketch, it's worth it. I think that's a bit much to ask though. I wouldn't bother unless you're really bored and can't figure out anything to watch (or even rewatch, there are many movies that would be better on an umpteenth showing than this was on its first).
If you skip all the love/sex scenes, which we did, it's a good film. That said, I have some gripes. One I'm going to bother with here is the attempt at the end of the film to claim that he was somehow serving the US Govt in his dealings, with US made weapons, because he was dealing in AK-47s, which are (brace yourself) a Soviet design. Perhaps they left out details or something, but in any case, that was odd. Bigger gripe: casting the USA and the other permanent members of the UN Security Council as the biggest suppliers of weapons and munitions worldwide. The film goes whacked on crack at the end. I can think of a couple of ways it could have better served its (IMO, misguided) mission.
On the whole, if you like a good Cage film and you want to look past the incoherencies and skip the sketch, it's worth it. I think that's a bit much to ask though. I wouldn't bother unless you're really bored and can't figure out anything to watch (or even rewatch, there are many movies that would be better on an umpteenth showing than this was on its first).
posted by Augie Fackler at 9:54 PM
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