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Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: There should be a phrase for the errors Lord of War makes: Call them substance abuse. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The film is morally unsettling on its surface, and then you realize the surface is all you're going to get. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Nicolas Cage is enormously, paradoxically likable as a genuine monster. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: There are the makings here of a really good feature or an even better documentary, but as it stands, Lord of War is not quite either. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: We've seen hundreds of gun-crazy action movies, but few films that tell us anything about the business of buying and selling weapons. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Lord is dull. Dirty dishwater dull. Terminally dull. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: Lord Of War drops the hammer slowly, laying out the fascinating parameters of Cage's world before opening up its argument in an astonishing denouement. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: [Cage] makes everything bearable, applying his usual talent for giving unsavory characters some attractive traits. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Lord of War is advocacy entertainment -- an act of mainstream provocation -- and, for the most part, it works unusually well. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Any time you're watching a film in which the statistics in the voice-over have more intrinsic drama than the protagonists' lives, you know you're in trouble. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A caustic satire masquerading as an action adventure. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Its best moments burn with irony. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The result is a dead pile of information in search of a movie. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: It gives moviegoers something to think about. If that recommendation sounds too dutiful, let it be known that it's exciting as well as thought-provoking. Read more
Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: Niccol wants us to identify with the sinner, but he has no taste for the sin. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: For all its intelligence, the film gradually sinks under the weight of its own sense of mission. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: It's a confrontational piece of filmmaking that examines political subject matter without the safety net of genre artifice. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Movies usually show bullets as if they're generic, anonymous masses of metal coming off a conveyor belt, while Lord of War wants us to see that each bullet is inscribed with somebody's name. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Nicolas Cage stars as a globe-trotting gunrunner in this misfire of a political satire about the international gun market. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: His heavy-handedness and inability to humanize and explain his hero mean that even the choir Niccol is preaching to won't be moved by Lord of War. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A bleak comedy, funny in a Catch-22 sort of way, and at the same time an angry outcry against the gun traffic that turns 12-year-olds into killers and cheapens human life to the point where might makes not only right, but everything else. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: ELord Of War drops the hammer slowly, laying out the fascinating parameters of Cage's world before opening up its argument in an astonishing denouement. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The viewer needs to bond with Yuri or we won't care what happens; but a lot of what happens is distasteful. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: It's just a well-intended essay, a movie when necessary but not necessarily a movie. Read more
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Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Lord of War tosses grenades and then fearfully runs from them. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Niccol is no stranger to hot-button issues, but he outdoes his previous efforts by injecting this satire of war profiteering in the Halliburton age with a wicked arsenic wit. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: As slick, flashy public-service announcements go, Lord of War is no Constant Gardener. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Lord of War has a hip, gonzo energy to it and it's often transfixing to watch and listen to. But it's finally just as empty as the man it's about. Read more