Review of Lord of War (2005) by Healingtoolbox — 03 Dec 2020

Thank You for Smoking meets Blood Diamonds. A daunting narrative task. Too long. Very mixed reviews by both pros and users tells me 1-2 scenes should have been deleted. It lacks too much humanity in its parody-meets-inconvenient-truths to be a long movie.

Acting is very good. Cage, Monihan, Leto are at their best. The real stand-out performances for me are the father son duo of Liberia. Good production values. My guess is this project had too little adult supervision at the script stage.

Selling a hard look at a forbidden, ugly social, political cultural truth would need a stronger story sense to create a commercial hit.