Nicolas Cage and "Lord of War" misfires as anti-gun statement

[doger5]

I looked at there web site. It's a 7.62x54r cartridge. Morons. It has a rim on the end of the cartridge. It bothers me that they don't match the rifle to the ammunition.

I'l probably rent it. But I totally refuse to watch Pearl Harbor. In an age of computer generation they couldn't do it right! In the clips they were using modern day frigates and destroyers.

 

[DRZinn]

Where do I even start?

To begin with, it’d be a hell of a strange battle that remained in the same place long enough to litter the ground with as much brass as Cage walks on in the opening and closing sequences. But all right, we can excuse that as artistic license.

Then there’s the idea that there’s an actual agency called Interpol, and that this agency has actual agents, who go where they want under the authority of Interpol and arrest anyone, anywhere.

And when a Marine Colonel shows up to tell Supercop to release the prisoner he's tracked for years and finally caught, he'll do it.

Then there’s the fact the drug addict turned out to be the “big hero” from the Hollywood viewpoint.

And it goes on and on...

 

[Mumbles_45]

I wasted $7 on LOW this afternoon. If that movie didnt make you mad, you weren't paying attention.

 

[RangerHAAF]

I'd had enough of this movie by the time the two brothers went to Africa to make the sale to the rebels from Sierra Leone. I just got tired of the continued moralizing and also that the "Yuri Orlov" character didn't have the balls to avenge his uncle's death.

This could have been a good movie if they'd just told the story, instead of injecting the UN, conflict diamonds, Interpol and the other ills of the world in it. Nobody cares(at least I don't) about the minutiae behind the deals, we went to see this movie with expectations of a good story to be told and it didn't happen.

 

[wingman]

Awful movie, don't waste your money.

 

[GlenJ]

So now Mel Gibson is right wing?? Is that after the Lethal Weapon movie about cop killer bullets?? Three wasn't it?? Also in the same movie in at least one of the police station scenes there's a poster in the background that says "say no to the NRA" with an assualt type rifle with a red circle and line through it. I read an article about the making of WAR and they used real AKs in it then after shooting the film they destroyed them.

 

[rallyhound]

I liked it.
I give it a 7.
sort of a morality tale.
I didnt see any outwardly political themes.
Sort of a swordfish type of film.

 

[Rob1035]

Swordfish had much cooler weaponry

 

[rallyhound]

Swordfish had much cooler weaponry .

and Halle by the pool.
.
I just love movies that are not afraid to portray what man is capable of.