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This attractively filmed movie is about an unattractive subject – the sale of arms and its proliferation all over the world thanks to the unscrupulous types like gunrunner Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) in this film.  It is really frightening how easy and how brazenly successful this business is.  Andrew Niccol gives us a docudrama like exposition of the arms industry that is a fascinating subject.  The movie plays more as a documentary than fiction despite some great set pieces.  Cage is suitably cynical and manic and is ably supported by Jared Leto as his brother who loses it, Bridget Moynahan as the wife and Ethan Hawke as the drug busting policeman.  I found it an easy film to watch but don’t think it was anything that special, despite the obvious care in its filming.

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