It's no secret that recently Nicolas Cage's acting work has left a lot to be said, lately his performances and above all his participation in different films have been deplorable, playing really generic roles, lifeless and always seem copied from other films. However, Nicolas Cage's career wasn't always in the dead-end that it is today, in fact his old movies were super entertaining, not perfect, but movies that gave us great moments of fun without having to resort to super complicated and deep plots, movies that managed to get the maximum potential of an actor who is not bad, but who has made bad decisions lately.
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One of Nicolas Cage's most memorable films is Lord of War, a film I never saw in the cinema and actually found almost by chance some time ago while I was looking for something to see while I was waiting to go out to dinner. This is a film that after starting to see can not stop (yes, that day there was no dinner) because it has a political background that is subtly touched, but that is felt throughout the film, but do not misinterpret me this is not a very dramatic film, but if it is a film that touches the intense drama through a final message that denotes a strong criticism of the arms industry in the United States.
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The plot of this film focuses on Nicolas Cage as a salesman/arms smuggler who lives a clandestine life where he belongs to the highest strata of American society using all the money he earns by trafficking arms around the world. The film allows us to see how arms trafficking is worldwide, an arms trafficking that is somewhat centralized and led by the incredible influence of a man to provide all kinds of weapons to countries and organizations regardless of the potential use they give to their weapons. In this film we will see all the dynamics behind an uncontrollable business that splashes people at all political and social levels of the world, through all this business that the character of Nicolas Cage has managed to create we will see how dictators, gangsters, and even insurgent groups access tons of ammunition and weapons that help them fulfill their purposes.
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Beyond seeing everything behind the arms sales business and how easy it was for a simple man to contact arms "manufacturers" so he could distribute them all over the world, we will see the different political nuances that intervene in this "clandestine" business, I stress clandestinely because this film strongly criticizes the way in which the United States and other countries use this type of arms traffickers to provide ammunition and armament to groups that they personally cannot help; basically this movie exposes in a great way how certain countries use this type of people as intermediaries to arm groups that they can't directly arm.
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The film is super entertaining because the cinematography is not usual, here we have deep scenes created from difficult moments, moments that put us in a really strong social and political context because we see everything behind a world as dark and flawed as that of arms trafficking, a world that unlike the world of drugs is not so controlled and instead receives "help" from the political elite to expand all over the world. Undoubtedly this is a film that beyond being entertaining, is also very critical because it shows the way in which money moves through unethical people, people who put their own benefit over the common good.
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I highly recommend that you watch this movie because you will have a good time and you will also be able to learn in a certain way what arms trafficking is like in countries in conflict and within one of the most powerful countries in the world, a country that constantly looks the other way when it comes to the arms trafficking business because it is a business that collaborates with the political goals of many people in government, yes, here we see how after an intense hunt the character of Nicolas Cage is released almost immediately to continue trafficking and doing the dirty work of the American government.
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My Score: 7,6/10
- Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1830-lord-of-war?language=en-US
- Critic: AAA