Lord of War Critic Reviews

A bleak comedy, funny in a "Catch-22" sort of way, and at the same time an angry outcry against the gun traffic.Read the full review

Tells Yuri's story with the same bravado and stylishness as Scorsese at his finest, with bigger-than-life characters and situations splashing across the screen in breathtaking scale.Read the full review

Cage is brilliant.Read the full review

Brimming with cinematic confidence, cynicism, chutzpah plus dramatic bungles, Andrew Niccol's ambitious Lord of War views today's international arms trade through its anti-hero.Read the full review

Lord of War is advocacy entertainment -- an act of mainstream provocation -- and, for the most part, it works unusually well.Read the full review

Lord Of War charges bravely and relentlessly into volatile territory, and it's hard to leave unscarred by the experience.Read the full review

Intelligent but not particularly involving.Read the full review

Niccol is too good a screenwriter (The Truman Show, Gattaca) not to know that Hollywood cliches are hell on a film's political bite. They muzzle it.Read the full review

The film is always at least mildly interesting, because international arms dealing is a fairly compelling issue, but it's never as informative as a good documentary nor as engrossing as a good narrative. It's a hybrid that's frustrating in two distinct ways.Read the full review