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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $14.98 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 16 September, 2005 DVD Release : 17 January, 2006 |
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Lord of War (Widescreen) description The lethal business of arms dealers provides an electrifying context for the black-as-coal humor of Andrew Niccol's Lord of War. Having proven his ingenuity as the writer of The Truman Show, and writer-director of Gattaca and the under-appreciated Simone, Niccol is clearly striving for Strangelovian relevance here as he chro ... review details |
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| The basic plot of the movie is that our hero (not) Yuri Orlov rises from an impoverished immigrant childhood to be a colossus of international gun-running. He provides everything from AK-47s to tanks to grenades, and he provides them to anyone with the money to pay.
I admire the creators of this picture for having the guts to openly discuss what is clearly a horrible and insane business. Nicholas Cage as Yuri is weirdly detached from the implications of his "job",and Jared Leto as his high-strung and drug-addled younger brother is wonderful as a pained voice of conscience. If I had a brother like this, I think I would become a nun with Mother Theresa's Missionaries of Charity or something, in a desperate bid to balance out the family karma. The violence of Yuri's world is no-nonsense, and not for the faint of heart. This movie really made me think. |
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