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Certainly not what I expected. I expected some kind of action film with Nicolas Cage. What I got was terrible
After the excellent and disgusting beginning, seeing a bullet being made, transported across the world and put into the gun of a soldier who kills a child it's downhill all the way very quickly. This is a worthy subject told in an annoying and silly way. Nicolas's Cage's voiceover doesn't work at all. He sounds disinterested and so laid back. The story itself is silly with moments of danger that don't seem real. A documentary would have been far more effective. I know these arms dealers are immoral people, just like a drug dealer. This didn't shock or surprise me at all. The voiceover was just too much, all the time. Since when does a film need such a sustained voice over?
if you live in the UK and watch a Channel 4 documentay called 'Dispatches' you know they can make a 1 hour program about this that would shock, hate and worry you. They would interview those responsible and show you what happened with a good understanding of why. I'm sure most countries have such programs; watch one of these on the arms trade, they are so many times more effective.
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