Lord of War

A bleak comedy, funny in a "Catch-22" sort of way, and at the same time an angry outcry against the gun traffic.Read Full Review »

Tells Yuri's story with the same bravado and stylishness as Scorsese at his finest, with bigger-than-life characters and situations splashing across the screen in breathtaking scale.Read Full Review »

Lord of War skims along like a dance routine. Political morality doesn't usually get such fleet choreography in the movies.Read Full Review »

Lord of War is advocacy entertainment -- an act of mainstream provocation -- and, for the most part, it works unusually well.Read Full Review »

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."Read Full Review »

Niccol is too good a screenwriter (The Truman Show, Gattaca) not to know that Hollywood cliches are hell on a film's political bite. They muzzle it.Read Full Review »

Intelligent but not particularly involving.Read Full Review »

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.Read Full Review »

Any time you're watching a film in which the statistics in the voice-over have more intrinsic drama than the protagonists' lives, you know you're in trouble.Read Full Review »

Like everything else in this film, Mr. Cage's performance is watchable if never credible because his director never resolves the disconnect between this star's function (to entertain) and that of his character (to repel).Read Full Review »