I don't remember seeing any commercials about this movie but do remember the billboard in SOMA that always peaked my interest. After watching the movie, I can understand why there wasn't a huge publicity blitz for this movie...touchy subject - one with no clear rights and wrongs.Definately worth the rental fees to watch this movie about guns, drugs and women... It's quite the allegory (new SAT word I learned) where Nicholas Cage plays a gunrunner who becomes the "best" in his field by selling guns for both sides of a war and even to countries that want to kill his own countrymen. His brother represents innocence and basically breaks down when he assists on a few missions. Nicholas Cage instead thrives in selling artillery to country leaders and instead of hating his character, as the viewer you see what he does as just a transaction - a transaction that will always occur.
Didn't know it was going to be as much of a political statement as it ended up being. I was pleasantly surprised. Few quotes that are repeated often:
- Remember, it's not our fight
- Brothers in Arms
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