-German
-American action drama film written and directed by Andrew Niccol
and starring Nicolas Cage
. It was released in the United States
on September 16, 2005, with the DVD
following on January 17, 2006 and the Blu-ray Disc
on July 27, 2006.
Cage plays an illegal arms dealer with similarities to post-Soviet arms dealer Viktor Bout
. The film was officially endorsed by the human rights group Amnesty International
for highlighting the arms trafficking by the international arms industry
.
Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage
), an American gunrunner of Ukrainian origin
, stands in a sea of spent shell casings.
There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?
The first and most important rule of gun-running is, never get shot with your own merchandise.
They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
The second rule of gun-running is always ensure you have a foolproof way of getting paid, preferably in advance, preferably to an offshore account.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want. The other is getting it.
Where there's a will, there's a weapon.
I sell to leftists, and rightists. I'd sell to pacifists, but they're not the most regular customers.
The problem with dating dream girls is that they have a tendency to become real.
Funny how you always resort to your native tongue in times of anger. And in times of ecstasy.