Lord of War - # 028

In 2005, the man who brought us Gattaca and The Truman Show teamed up with Nicolas Cage to shine a light on the shady underbelly of illegal arms trafficking and produced a film is just as relevant now as it was then. So break out your Kalashnikov’s and pour a few lines of cocaine and gunpowder as we breakdown one of my all-time favorite Nicolas Cage films: Lord of War.

Yuri Orlov lived the American dream. He went from a child of immigrants barely squeaking by in New York to marrying his dream girl and settling down in a multi-million dollar home overlooking Central Park but behind closed doors he earned his fortune by selling arms to the highest bidder and built an empire in coated blood.

Lord of War hosts an incredible cast including four time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, Bilbo Baggins himself or Ash from Alien depending on how old you are: Ian Holm, the lovely and talented Bridget Moynahan, an actor whose name always makes me cringe when I see it in the credits – Oscar winner, musician and cult leader (seriously, look it up) Jared Leto and the only man I buy my guns from Academy Award winning actor Nicolas Kim Coppola better known as Nicolas Cage.