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Lord of War

2005 · Movie · 117 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer62%as of 2026-01-16
  • Rotten Tomatoes average6.3/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic62/100as of 2026-01-16

What it is

Lord of War is a 2005 crime drama film written, produced and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ethan Hawke, and Eamonn Walker in primary roles. The plot follows an unscrupulous Ukrainian-American man named Yuri Orlov as he participates in the global arms trafficking industry in the years preceding and succeeding the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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Genres
Drama / Crime / Action
Original language
English

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