![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yuri is played by Nicolas Cage in another of those performances you cannot easily imagine anyone else doing he plays an immigrant from Ukraine who has the cocky self-assurance, the snaky surface charm, the breezy intellectual justification for the most indefensible acts. "Lord of War" is 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. Yuri is an international arms dealer who has "done business with every army but the Salvation Army." He cheerfully tours the world's flashpoints, a war-to-war salesman in a dark suit and tie. There are few pleasures to be had from an AK-47 bullet to the brain, and no time to enjoy them. He has a point, but it's more fun and takes longer to die that way. Yuri Orlov argues that his products kill fewer people than tobacco and alcohol. ![]()
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