Lord Of War

americana sulla "necessità" della guerra, ma in generale un film divertente e anche un poco appassionante

Recensito in Italia il 3 gennaio 2023

bello il film e la spedizione ottima

un grandissimo nicholas cage

coffy76

Recensito in Italia il 16 agosto 2015

avevo visto questo film tanti anni fa ma appena è uscito il blu ray l'ho acquistato subito.la pellicola parla del traffico internazionale di armi,in particolar modo è la storia di un piccolo trafficante interpretato appunto da nicholas cage che nel giro di pochi anni riesce a espandere il suo giro di affari su scala mondiale.il film ti prende dal primo all'ultimo minuto,non è un classico film d'azione,la storia è molto interessante,non ci sono momenti morti.nonostante la lunga durata,il film scorre via che è un piacere e non si vede l'ora come vada a finire.bellissimo il colpo di scena finale.un grande film insomma,il blu ray è fatto vramente bene,ci sono pure parecchi extra.da avere assolutamente anche perchè è una delle migliori interpretazioni di nicholas cage.

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DanQ82

Ottimo acquisto!

Recensito in Italia il 22 luglio 2020

Valutazione Amazon. ottimo. Consegnato nei tempi previsti, pacco pervenuto integro e confezione senza un graffio.
Valutazione prodotto: ottimo.
Consigliatissimo a tutti i fan del misconosciuto Nicholas Cage, direi una delle sue interpretazione migliori.
Direi il remake holywoodiano di "Finché c'è guerra c'è speranza" con il mitico Alberto Sordi.

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Fabio (Pavia)

Disarmante...

Recensito in Italia il 12 maggio 2014

Un film molto, molto interessante.

Sulla scia comico-tragica di "Finché c'è guerra c'è speranza" (A.Sordi), Nicholas Cage (perfetto per questa parte) impersona un signore della guerra in puro stile americano. Qualunque lascito comico di Sordi si perde... ma diventa una cruda realtà che suggestiona lo spettatore nella sua crudezza.

Ambientazioni e susseguirsi degli eventi perfetti.

Ragionamenti freddi, addirittura glaciali: azzeccatissimi nel personaggio di Cage.

Fantastica la sequenza iniziale osservata "dal punto di vista del proiettile". La rivedrei decine e decine di volte... spaventosamente attraente.

Assolutamente da vedere (e rivedere).

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C’è un solo problema con i soldi puliti, sono difficili da fare”

Samuele

Recensito in Italia il 10 aprile 2020

Il film si ispira a fatti e persone reali mostrando, con momenti drammatici e ironici, i retroscena del traffico d'armi e degli intrighi politici che lo rendono possibile.
Lo consiglio sicuramente.

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Amazon's friend

Recensito in Italia il 11 giugno 2017

Capolavoro assoluto. Un grandissimo Nicolas Cage e un enorme Ethan Hawke tratteggiano una realtà evidente ma abilmente minimizzata dai media "classici". Sul podio della mia personalissima classifica merita una menzione d'Onore per i titoli di testa e soprattutto per il dialogo finale tra Cage e Hawke. Buona anche la performance di Jared Leto. Rivederlo ogni volta aggiunge qualcosa in più. Applausi.

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Jelena

Buon prodotto

Recensito in Italia il 11 febbraio 2020

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Rok

Conforme à la description

Recensito in Francia il 4 ottobre 2023

Produit conforme à la description. Fonctionne très bien.

Jens

Einblicke eines Waffenhändlers

Recensito in Germania il 22 settembre 2023

Ein Film mit Nicolas Cage der als Waffenhändler nicht genug bekommt. Eine echte Wahrheitsbegebenheit die zum Umdenken anregt.

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the Mad Baron

Gun Running for the thinking man

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 5 marzo 2020

This review is for the special edition 2 disc version. First, a note about the technical specs. It's in 16:9 widescreen, as correctly specified in the product description. In the extras that are in disc 2, however, the deleted scenes are in 2.35:1 theatrical widescreen. I wish the entire movie had been offered in 2.35:1 aspect ratio. The deleted scenes seem crisper and sharper, more visually stunning than the movie itself. The 16:9 is watchable and enjoyable, but I think I would have preferred the theatrical aspect ratio.

Now, on to the movie. This is a thinking man's drama/action movie, with a surprisingly large amount of narration. It follows the story of a quasi illegal arms dealer as he goes from middle class restauranteur to world class gun runner. I'm not a Nicholas Cage fan, as I think he's vastly overrated as an actor. In this movie, however, he seems to have found his raison d'etre. I've probably seen about a dozen or so of his films, and this is the best by far. He delivers a pretty good performance, albeit missing any Eastern European accent. The supporting actors are also good. His brother in this movie is particularly memorable, evoking images of a young Alain Delon.

There are many instances of philosophizing in the dialog that are obviously relevant to our currently turbulent times. Does eliminating guns or gun runners eliminate war and violence? The short answer is hell no, because there will always be someone else manufacturing more guns and selling them to those who will pay for them. The long answer is no as well, because until and unless you eliminate the root causes of war, there will always be war and violence. And as long as there is war and violence, people will make weapons and sell and buy them.

On that note, I will say this: there is a comment in the extras by one guy who insightfully says that if you want to stop war, stop buying gasoline and diamonds. Because those are the kinds of commodities that drive the unrest in the middle east and Africa. I will go a step further and say that eliminating the gun and weapons trade will not stop war or violence. People who have a vendetta will kill, regardless of what weapons are available. If you took away AK-47s, they'd use sticks and stones. If you took away those as well, these are people who'd use fists and even tear out throats with their teeth. Are you going to make fists and teeth illegal as well? As eastern philosophies and western religions have taught, there will be no peace on earth until every one of us changes and destroys the "demons" within us. Namely, those root causes of dissatisfaction, which is the real reason why humans kill each other.

Violence has been with us well before guns and modern weapons. The Trojan War and even the prehistoric story of Cain and Abel amply demonstrate that we kill just as easily with primitive weapons as with modern guns and ammo. War is caused by two things. The have-nots who attack the haves; and the haves who abuse the have-nots until they revolt. Basically all are economic or political in nature. All result from that root cause of dissatisfaction inside all of us. The only thing that will break these cycles and free us is eliminating that dissatisfaction within ourselves.

Finally, another note on the extras. There is a guns of the trade feature showing eight common small arms weapons. The specs for the M16, which shows a example of an M16 with what appears to be a grenade launcher attached under the barrel, are way off. It says the M16 is 7.62 mm and 10.4 kg. The intern who put that part in must have been working late on Friday! As far as I am aware, the M16 has always been a .223 caliber (5.56 mm) rifle and the 5.56 mm cartridge has been NATO standard for years as a result. The M16 only weighs about 4 kg, so the weight is also ridiculously wrong. It wouldn't be 10.4 kg even with the fully loaded grenade launcher attached. So take the "guns of the trade" feature with a grain of salt.

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Nikolai Ivanov

I'm good at it

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 12 novembre 2012

Judging from the reviews (and, say, from an endorsement by Amnesty International), most people consider this movie as a movie about arms trade, especially about private arms dealers. The main character, Yuri Orlov, is such a dealer, and the movie tells the story of his life so far, so this is indeed correct to some extent. Unfortunately, the deeper aspects of the movie are hardly appreciated.

For me, this movie is about Yuri Orlov, brilliantly played by Nicolas Cage, and about the "complexity of human existence in the modern world" (Milan Kundera) resulting from the modern technology. The other movies directed by Andrew Niccol, the director of "Lord of War", are "Gattaca", "S1m0ne", and "In time" (all are also written by him). All of them are about the effects of future technology on human existence. They do not seriously overstep the borders of what is possible according to the modern science (in contrast with legions of others "sci"-fi movies). In Niccol's movies the more advanced future technology is only a tool for focusing attention on some things already in place.

It is not surprising at all that in one of his movies Andrew Niccol deals with an existing technology. This technology, mostly the Soviet machine-gun AK-47, is about 60-65 years old. It was a real breakthrough, and if one takes into account the cost and the ease of use, it may still be the best. AK-47 is the main merchandise Yuri Orlov is trading; mostly because trading in AK-47 is the best from purely business point of view. He would trade in jet fighters or nuclear submarines, if governments wouldn't reserve this more profitable trade for themselves.

Near the end of the movie (this is not a spoiler) Orlov's wife asks him why he is doing this. He answers "I'm good at it". Here is one of the main problems of human existence: when somebody discovers that she or he is very good at something, the desire to do this is overwhelming. One may find this something to be morally objectionable, leading to a very boring life, or whatever. The desire to do things you are good at usually wins. Yuri Orlov is going to great lengths to fight his own feeling that his business is morally objectionable. It is sad that not only he almost succeeds, but that his arguments are valid and accepted by the governments and the society (both in the movie and in the real world). By this reason he continues his business instead of being behind bars, and is doomed to be tormented by his guilt.

He got into such a miserable situation not because of wars, mass killings, or genocide here or there. All of this existed during the whole history of humankind. He was put into his position by the AK-47 and by more modern technologies enabling global trading. If not these technologies, he would have a life miserable in a different sense of the word, a life with an unrequested talent.

Some people dislike the movie much enough as to say that it was a waste of $5.00 because it is anti-American. It is most resolutely not. Just before the final credits it said that the most of the arms trading is done not by American arms dealers and even not by the American government (as some are inclined to think).

You may watch "Lord of war" as a purely political movie (it is exceptionally good as such), but then you should be ready for a lot of objectionable things in it, no matter what your political position is. The movie gives no definite answers, and does not put the blame squarely on Orlov personally, USA as the universal villain, or dissolution of the USSR, for example - name your own favorite. But there are no such answers.

I watched "Lord of War" as a movie about Yuri Orlov. This wasn't my intention. I watched it only because it was directed by Andrew Niccol. It just turned out this way. It is great as a movie about a person with strange gift (all real gifts are strange) in our complex world. The performance of Nicolas Cage is one of the best in his career. He is way too often cast into a role of a cartoon character with high level of adrenalin (he is good at this, for sure). But "Lord of war" is one of the movies showing Nicolas Cage as a truly great actor (he is much better as Yuri Orlov than in his Oscar-winning performance in "Leaving Las Vegas").

The script by Andrew Niccol is brilliant. He manages to explain a lot in a couple of phrases and a minute of screen time (watch the development of the relations of Orlov with his wife). Usually I hate the voiceover; this is the first movie in which I found the voiceover to be not objectionable at all.

The movie contains some subtle references to other movies, which are hard to notice while watching it for the first time. The most important ones are to "Rumble fish" (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983), and to "Brazil" (Terry Gilliam, 1985). They indicate the proper context for this movie.

May be there is one more important reference. The nemesis of Yuri Orlov, an idealistic Interpol agent, is named Jack Valentine (played by Ethan Hawke). And there is Jill Valentine, a character from "Resident Evil" videogames and movies. It is very hard to believe that there are people such as Jack Valentine who have so much power as he has. This character is needed for the movie by the well justified standards of screenwriting. It is hard to go without an interpersonal conflict, and without a "really good person" such as Jack Valentine. But he is from a videogame. Actually, Jack Valentine personifies Orlov's conscience.

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Patric Knust

Guter Film sehr guter Zustand

Recensito in Germania il 27 luglio 2023

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