25 posts tagged lord_of_war

Another Tie! Only 3 of you are right this time... If you voted for Lord Of War(IMDB)(Rotten) then you were correct! This flick was directed by Andrew Niccol(IMDB) and was a pretty cool portrayal about a Gun Runners rise to power and even touched on the dirty underbelly of the US Govt.

Before The Devil Knows Your Dead [bluray] is interesting film by Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon [bluray]) held my attention pretty well through it. Normally not liking non-linear films, the kind that bounce around forwards and backwards in time, however I do like that approach when it goes back to reveal motivations of characters.

Former Soviet military officer Viktor Bout, the inspiration for Nicholas Cages character in the Lord of War, remade himself as an international arms dealer and blood diamonds trafficker following the break-up of the USSR. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

Well, what can I possibly say about Nicolas Cage that hasn't already been said? He destroyed two films last year [Ghost Rider and the utterly abysmal remake of The Wicker Man] but every once in a while he puts his name on a good film. This is the introduction to one of them.

From the get go, Lord of War is on to a good thing. Here you have a unique take a on an arms dealer, played smirky as hell by Nicolas Cage. This is trademark Cage, so if you hate him, as many do, you’re not going to like it. I, on the other hand, acting skills aside, feel a strange affinity towards him, so I see that as a good thing.

Italian police caught gangsters trying to purchase half a million AK-47s from Norinco (the Chinese state arms exporter) on behalf of a Libyan. Apparently they were only purchasing 10 million round of ammo. Thats 50 20 rounds per gun - less than two one magazines worth.

My favorite movie... You gotta love this poster. Pass it on.

The one some have called “the merchant of death” was recently apprehended in Bangkok, Thailand where he may have run an international base of arms dealing to terrorists.   Viktor Bout is suspected of supplying weapons to the Taliban and Al Qaeda and of pouring huge arms shipments into civil wars in Africa with his own private air fleet.

‘Lord of War’ arms dealer faces extradition to US The United States has requested the extradition of Viktor Bout, the alleged “merchant of death” arms dealer arrested in Thailand yesterday. But the Americans will be forced to wait for their long-sought prisoner while the Thai authorities first

The United States has requested the extradition of Viktor Bout, the alleged “merchant of death” arms dealer arrested in Thailand yesterday. But the Americans will be forced to wait for their long-sought prisoner while the Thai authorities first investigate whether Mr Bout used the Asian country as a base to negotiate a weapons deal with terrorists.