{"id":9653,"date":"2005-11-09T23:59:40","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T20:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/09\/lord-of-war\/"},"modified":"2005-11-09T23:59:40","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T20:59:40","slug":"lord-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/09\/lord-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><!-- IMDB tt0399295 --><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/rummovie\/tt0399295.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lord of War (2005)\" \/>It was some time since I was in the cinema.  I was saving up for a good movie and this week they have two of these.  I am not yet sure that I will make it to the second one, but the first one I saw today &#8211; &#8220;<a href =\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0399295\">Lord of War<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by:<\/strong> Andrew Niccol<br \/>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong> Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller<br \/>\n<strong>Cast:<\/strong> Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Shake Tukhmanyan, Jean-Pierre Nshanian, Jared Burke, Eric Uys, David Shumbris, Stewart Morgan, Jasper Lenz, Kobus Marx, Stephan De Abreu, Jeremy Crutchley, Ian Holm, Tanya Finch<br \/>\n<strong>IMDB raintg:<\/strong> 7.4<br \/>\n<strong>My rating:<\/strong> 7.0 [rate 7.0]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The film is clearly separated into two parts.  Maybe that just seems so to me because I was adjusting to the cinema atmosphere during the first half, but that&#8217;s what I felt.  The first half of the film is rather entertaining with a mild touch of nostalgie.  The second half attempts to educational, and maybe it was, if I wasn&#8217;t Russian and familiar good enough with what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t like the second part much.  It was too naive and cliche.  And way too dramatically done for what was on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>The first part was very good though.  It had a somewhat new approach to the weapon dealing story, new angles, enough humor, and fast pace.  I laughed several times.<\/p>\n<p>Another plus to the filmmakers is that they finally managed to make those other languages sound realistic.  I am not sure about Chinese and Arabic, but Russian was properly done, including all the cursing.  Maybe just a little more work needed to be done on the accents, but overall very nice.<\/p>\n<p>In general, I liked this film and I have no regrets of seeing it.  While half of it could be better, another half compensated enough for the shortcomings.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>It was some time since I was in the cinema. I was saving up for a good movie and this week they have two of these. I am not yet sure that I will make it to the second one, but the first one I saw today &#8211; &#8220;Lord of War&#8220;. Directed by: Andrew Niccol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/09\/lord-of-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lord of War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[2050,1956,866],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies","tag-jared-leto","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-weapons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9412,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/04\/alexander\/","url_meta":{"origin":9653,"position":0},"title":"Alexander","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 4, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Alexander\" is one of the big time movies of the last year that I missed in the cinema. 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