{"id":443,"date":"2006-01-22T15:55:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T23:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2006-01-22T15:55:17","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T23:55:17","slug":"reviews-lord-of-war-and-transporter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/22\/reviews-lord-of-war-and-transporter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews: Lord of War<\/em> and Transporter 2<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

We decided to stay in with a couple of movies over the weekend, and chose Lord of War<\/em> and Transporter 2<\/em>. I’ll list them in the order we watched them.<\/p>\n

Transporter 2<\/em><\/strong>
\nWe had been warned ahead of time that while the movie was good, there are some seriously painful parts. They were right.<\/p>\n

The plot isn’t bad for an action movie, although it’s finer points needed more work. Of course, we know what the basic plot is going to be when we go into it: The Transporter takes a job to move something, gets involved somehow more than he wanted to, and ends up kicking everyone’s ass. This they do, and well.<\/p>\n

The rough parts come with the why<\/em> the bad guys do what they do – aside from normal bad guy stupidity.<\/p>\n

The really painful parts come with the action sequences. Most moviegoers are willing to suspend disbelief for a while, but this film asks us to simply shut our brain off and watch the pretty pictures at a couple of points. <\/p>\n

In all, I give it 2 1\/2 paws out of five.<\/p>\n

Lord of War<\/em><\/strong>
\nThis is not a happy movie. One of the first sequences follows the life of an AK-47 round (from the bullet’s POV) through manufacturing, delivery, dissemination and eventually to the end of it’s life – in the forehead of what appears to be a 14-yr-old African boy.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t lighten up much from this for the rest of the movie.<\/p>\n

I get the feeling Cage took this project to in some way make up for a couple of the cheesier roles he’s taken recently. National Treasure<\/em> was pure Disney, and I’m not sure Ghost Rider<\/em> is going to turn out very well. So, he takes the role of one Yuri Orlov and tells you how this character turned from potential restaraunteur into an arms dealer.<\/p>\n

Cage does a very good job of making you like and identify with Yuri, who is not in any way a good man. He provides the means for nations to lay waste to their neighbors in exchange for cash, drugs, contraband and lives. Through all of this, you still like him.<\/p>\n

Not exactly a date movie, but well-made and worth watching. I give it 3 1\/2 paws out of 5.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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