I love Andy Jr's reaction on the armour piercingng bullets - he's like delighted with the customer service. It's like his equivalent of when you find out a restaurant can add bacon to your burger. "You can do that!? PLEASE!"
Personally my favorite warlords in Liberia were General But Naked, general Hitler and General Mosquito. But Naked was an outstanding commander and knew just how to inspire his naked legion of cannibal kids.
This movie portrayed the dictator so well. Scary and without "normal moral values", but still very charming and likeable in a weird way when you talk with him.
sociopaths can be like that. VERY charming. smooth talkers. but in the end, will lie cheat steal and even murder you when the time comes. when i go to heaven, im asking God did you create sociopaths narcissists and pedophiles? if yes... WHY!?
Most narcissists are relatable. They are good at portraying likability. Nothing on earth is worse than arms dealers. Not talking about FFL. Even the aristocracy relies on these lowlifes. Shame on these lowlifes.
@@nukacoaal it was not really humour from cage... as I understood it, his outcry was genuinely due to shock and he was opposed to the killing. the "used gun" was simply the first thing that came into his mind that would rationalize his outcry as anything but what it was.
andy wanted to know where is his Nicolas stance on the current situation the best arms dealer talk only commercial interest once Nicolas made the outrage into the usage of his yet to be bought firearm which is his property instead of the killing of Andy property the soldier andy can respect that and be assured going forward that his arms dealer dont really give a shit how he use his weapons toward property in his mind which is the people
@@RKBock well it's him being smart. Being angry he shot the kid would have positioned himself as having doubted his decision making. Effectively calling him out as a ruthless dictator. However making it seem like he was pissed about it being a "used gun" demonstrates Cage was only pissed about greed lol and demonstrates him to be a MORE trustworthy arms dealer, as it's clear he holds high standards for the guns he's selling even though practically nobody cares about whether a gun is used or not.
"Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: the Federation of Worse Oppressors Than the Last Bunch of Oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves Freedom Fighters." Yuri Orlov I'm still rather surprised they were willing to acknowledge that fact so openly.
You either sell arms or you don't. If you do they will inevitably end up with people that have the money to buy them. Many of the guns in this movie were from exYugoslav states, so really easy to aquire stuff without necessary paperwork in places undergoing bureaucratic rebirth. Otherwise there are legitimate armed forced and police units that require weapons, there's many of them around the world very often purchases can either appear to be for them or are redirected elsewhere in shipment. West (as well as other ex Soviet states) arms practically everyone except few countries that have homegrown industries, but generally most of these countries don't descend into decades long genocidal conflict where cannibalism and child soldiers are on the table.
I still think this is Nicholas Cage's best film. When he tries he can be a really good actor. His acting skills are great for a character that has little to no empathy.
I don't think his problem is not wanting to be good, his problem is that he signed up for lots and lots of movies that were so bad not even Heath Ledger could have saved them.
But they actually need them in this movie. Africa's a sunny place and it doesn't have the obnoxious green filter the machines installed over the Matrix.
@@zyron7115 Because it shows in a creative way dictators hypocrisy. He is pretending that he is some benevolent leader, maybe he even believes he is, but all he created was war and misery for his country. You know how they say comedy is al about timing? Well... This scene is all about timing
That is, without a doubt - the greatest save by a movie character, in history. He was within seconds of death, by his reaction to the killing of the kid who was flirting, but flips it into indignation at the use of the gun. Brilliant.
He should have also been reacting to the hearing loss of shooting off a gun indoors without hearing protection. 😮 It’s a few hours of feeling like you’re wearing earmuffs, along with a constant high pitched ringing. The ringing returns a few times a day for the next several days. “WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!” “WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”
i thought yuri was being genuine. i considered your premise, maybe i dismissed too fast. i feel denial that yuri would be shocked. yet he didnt smirk in humor and seemed upset genuinely. when it should be a demonstration piece he wasnt going to sell anyways.
I love that you can tell that the dictator can tell that the shock was genuine and that was him saving face, but he seemed charmed by the quick-thinking brazenness of this play - he knows that this is a man he can do business with.
It seems like the dictator scene was a much much deeper interaction between them, he wanted to see how cage would react to the shooting and he did react to the human life being taken but he caught himself and quickly made his interest become in the gun being used, he showed no fear and indifference to human life therefore gaining the trust of the dictator
@Parental Guardian Yes it was, a dictator as ruthless as him wouldn't want his gun dealers trying to get involved into politics. As that would effect the deals. Remember the scene when yuris brother tried to sabataodge the deal and threw a grenade into one of the trucks, therefore getting him killed? Yeah, thats why he wanted to see if yuri was a pussy like his brother.
"They say evil prevails when good men fail to act. What they oughta say was; evil prevails." That quote still stuck with me. Brilliant film. People like to shit on Nic Cage but he's an amazing actor, he just can't seem to pick his roles right. Or maybe he has bad agents.
Well the reason why he's such in awful films before making is resurgence in Mandy and Pig is that he wasted his money in a lot of things like monuments and even an Action Comics 38, he got into so much debt that he started accepting every role he could in order to pay off his debts.
I just don't understand Nicholas Cage. he's starred in some of my favorite movies and some of my least favorites. His acting can be stellar, and also terrible
I think it had more to do with the fact that he realized that Yuri had just grabbed the gun out of his hand, *while it was pointed at him.* Baptiste knew that took some massive brass balls to do, and he respected the hell out of him for it.
This film deserves credit for debunking the myth that a Glock can get through airport security. No it can't. The whole slide assembly is metal, the magazine spring is metal, and of course the bullets in the gun are metal.
It started with the film Die Hard 2, I believe. Apparently, the film's armorer begged them not to do it, but they did it anyway. Glock did it on an x-ray machine to prove it wasn't true. Only 40% off it is plastic. Also the ammo.
@@MrPolicekarim Ah yes, the infamous "Glock 7" from Die Hard 2. I've talked to gun shop clerks who say they've had customers ask them for one of those. They might as well be asking for a plasma rifle in 40-watt range.
@sushi4life no one is anti 2A , you just anti- 1A, and myth also wasn’t spread by anti-2A it was more a movie thing. Also the Hollywood is heavily funded by the military and there is even a whole branch who’s main objective is to make sure that all Hollywood movie about America in war shows America military in the best light possible in order to get good funding and tax incentives.
Not too hopeful. Bout sold half the Russian Army's modern weapons stockpile. A serious contributor to Russia's failures in Ukraine. I'd stay away from windows if I was Bout.
Andre Baptiste is a fictionalized version of Charles Taylor, the warlord who was President of Liberia from 1997-2003. He was infamous for his brutality during both the first civil war, as a rebel, and during the second civil war, as president. He was eventually sentenced to 50 years in prison for crimes against humanity. During the second civil war, a number of lumber companies became fronts for arms dealers in exchange for lumber export licenses, which Taylor had canceled when he came into office. Leonid Minin and Viktor Bout, who Yuri Orlov's character is based on, are both thought to have sold Taylor weapons through those lumber companies. Leonid Minin was born in Ukraine and later moved to Tel Aviv, among many other cities on many continents. He is known to have sold to Taylor and to rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone, and he is thought to have additionally dealt with Slobodan Milosevic. Viktor Bout was (likely) an ethnic Ukrainian born in Tajikistan. After the fall of the USSR, he began selling arms to various countries, earning the nickname "Sanctions Buster" for his ability and willingness to evade UN arms embargoes. Minin was arrested in Milan in 2000 and released 2 years later. He is still alive (75 years old) and thought to be a major figure in the Odessa Mafia, through which he still deals arms as of 2018. Probably, he has moved to his other properties in London or elsewhere due to the invasion in Ukraine. Bout was harder to catch, as he kept changing out company names, residences, shell companies, and so on. He is thought to have acted on orders from the KGB/FSB. The US froze his assets in 2004 and he was arrested in Thailand in 2008; for the next two years, Russia argued for his release, claiming that his arrest was politically motivated. He is currently in a federal prison in Illinois. EDIT: I made this comment months ago how tf you guys keep finding me. Stuff happened, check the comments.
best outcome for Africa is for China to buy them out, clear away the warlords, end the constant battles for the diamond mines and kick out any other conquers who wish to set foot. otherwise, Africa is going to continue walking the endless cycle of getting freeloaded by other countries, being stuck in endless civil wars, being left in rubble and having no potential for growth.
I just listened to a podcast about Charles Taylor. Messed up dude. General "butt naked" was also involved. Liberia has had quite a tumultuous history to say the least.
I love the brutal honesty of the reality Nicolas cages character gives, also I’m sure people in the west care but their governments make sure their people are distracted.
Yeah it's just a bit of a mine field to help as far as I can tell helping those that live in these types of states, give aid you are destabilising/corrupting the local economy and making them dependant besides the fact that often many local governments (mafia) will just take most of it for themselves. Invest and you will be often considered too be exploiting them or being imperialist for buying out their country (besides the fact a lot of the really troubled countries have really high corruption or chance of nationalisation of investments making investments risky), and an intervention to attempt to help will be automatically viewed as neoimperialism (and also likely make things way worse see well anywhere America recently went) . So you can see how politiclly its often considered just kicking a hornets nest. And whenever they do one of the above as it's going to automatically seen in that view anyway so they think they might as well just go ahead and take advantage of what everyone thinks is happening anyway. Though I should add I really do believe that we should help countries that are stable and actually care about their people with a whole lot more investments and support to further help build up countries which just don't have the capital necessary to fix certain issues. Btw sorry if I came across to strong honestly I don't know too much about the goings on over there this is just my impression I've received over here, since you seemed curious what was the 'the peoples stance' however I can only really speak for myself.
No. No they dont. They just pretend to care to score virtue points.Those who truly care leave for Africa to actually help. The rest talk about it on social media and the one who virtue-signals the best gets the most likes. But its not about helping anyone. It never is. Its simply the latest fashion, a pissing contest between wealthy, healthy people in first world societies. In the past one showed how cultured they were by displaying knowledge of art, fashion, music etc. Now they do it by showing how "aware" they are of "injustice" and how "woke" it makes them feel. The only real goal is status among their peers.
This proves to me that Nick Cage is a phenomenal actor. For the movies he believes in, his acting is superb, and then, you see him in movies where he is terrible, and, I think that's his way of making a mark, in that, if he believes in the project, you get the real Nick Cage performance, if he thinks the project isn't, he still takes it, and you get the "Flash a famous name on the marquee" Nick Cage. If you look at all his "Great Roles", you start to see a pattern on who Nick Cage is, what motivates him, and when it matters, he dials his skills to 11.
Well thats kind of dishonest in his part. Unless someone forces him to act on movies, you deliver the performance you're hired to deliver. It shouldnt matter if you believe it in or not, dont take the job if you hate it. I'm sure as a rich actor he can pick his roles..
I enjoy stealing Norm McDonalds jokes and saying “the worst part is the hypocrisy” in places it doesn’t make sense. Pretty everyone just nods along when you say it.
@@geobloxmodels1186 Just the other day, Officer Tatum was talking about BLM stealing... Er... REDISTRIBUTING... 6 Million dollars in donations to buy real estate. I perused the comments and didn't really see that I had anything useful to add that anybody else hadn't already said, so I dropped in - *"Where's the money, Lebowski? Where's the fucking money, shithead?"* 😁
I like how Andre knows that Yuri was trying to cover his ass with the “used gun” shtick. As an illegal arms dealer, *all* his products have been used before.
The guns might be old, but many of them are not used. They often just sit in armories never used until they are decommissioned, then sold by people like himself.
FYI, 00:00 to 00:13 is a very accurate explanation of Africa's geopolitical situation from 1991 to 2001. Countless civil wars fought in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Angola among other countries.
@@lonewolf0281 Your grammar is wrong first of all. It should be, “it was way ahead of its time.” You know, with the period before the last quotations. Moreover, it appears 13 other people agreed by upvoting my comment. What difference does it make what generation I’m even from? I’m 27 if that helps you, sweetie. I’m glad my comment was able to trigger you so badly, lmao.
For those of you confused why andre baptiste sr. (the dictator) shot the soldier is because the soldier was flirting with one of baptiste's lovers, so being the lunatic murdering sociopath that he is baptiste sr. killed the soldier.
Don't flirt with other man's woman. Pretty simple lesson to learn. One of the most basic things to learn on Earth. Every culture knows this. Some cultures take it more seriously though. Then again Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten. Some people just don't learn by words. So a bullet will do.
@@an0nym00se4 they just want their post dystopian child fucking gun toteing paradise. Free of poor people and non pedophiles. They want impunity. They want devastation. They always get what they want. We should all love our families with reckless abandon from here on out. We never really know how much time we have left.
This really shows how disconnected he was to the weapons he sold. Selling guns to dictators and cartels didnt bother him at all, but one person dying in front of him scared him. You'd think he sold vacuum cleaners with the way he initially reacted. To him it was just a product to profit from, he didn't have to see the children getting massacred by the guns he sold.
"Can you bring me the gun of Rambo?" "Part one, two or three?" "I've only seen part one." That's some subtle but clever writing there. Rambo Part 1 was the one whose core message was 'war is bad because PTSD' and only one guy dies in the entire movie. Andre Junior completely failed to see the movie's message and just treated it like an action movie.
I watched American History X in class (rural town, lots of racists) and it was funny because I could literally see the gears turning on some of my classmates as they realized that maybe, just maybe their beliefs were not true. And then the ending comes where the brother gets shot and they instantly conclude “oh, black people are bad”. Smh
@@jabronis33 This is what the tandem cycle of random violence breeds! A vengeful black hit-sludge with a grudge hath brought the reaper you've sown in the goo of your guilt, as the créme-de-karma is roosting home to harm ya. It always ends up boning the poor.
This was one of my most most favourite films of all time, and this scene hit me. I was a quiet young awkward kid in college when I saw this. It inspired me to be a salesperson like Yuri, and it changed my life almost 180. So many years have past and to think my life was so different. Thank you Lord of War.
@@user-bu4ut2li1m i was soo young when I saw this. I was like damn I wanna be like this guy, because I'm so awkward shy person when I was in college. So I took up part time job as a promoter selling cars. After so many years different jobs, now I'm selling food sauces to chain restaurants.
@@rhyswong8976 In my late-teens I wished to become such person who's on short leg with many people, doing grey-business or to be journalist in a war-zone. Now I study design and IT, but feel that this office job is lacking real life creativity, street-wisdom. Especially, now, when AI coming, and in 15 years it will probably perform the most of routine jobs in IT and elsewhere. But no AI will ever replace a human for other human, same as our thinking out the box. That's for sure!
@@user-bu4ut2li1m you study design and IT, and yet you still have passion in original creativity and street wisdom (which nowadays is so rare)... to me that's a positive thing man. That industry maybe lacking what you said, but perhaps that's where you are needed.
Now, that was HIS stellar role. What an actor, Eamonn Walker is.... Look at him on this one: the very exact opposite of everything Kareem Saïd represented. And He portrayed it just as fine.
I love Andy Jr's reaction on the armour piercingng bullets - he's like delighted with the customer service. It's like his equivalent of when you find out a restaurant can add bacon to your burger. "You can do that!? PLEASE!"
He should have offered him the foregrip from Part 2.
I would be happy with an M60 with AP rounds. It would be fun to use it for target practice against my political foes 😎😎😎😎
Andy Jr's reaction is priceless at that moment. It always throws me when I see it.
But... like bacon, that makes it cost more.
His name is ANDRÉ . Not Andy...
"Personally I blame MTV."
Casual shots being fired in the background.
Xareous he certainly killed that man.
that is awesome
With his writing ;)
I too blame MTV
Personally my favorite warlords in Liberia were General But Naked, general Hitler and General Mosquito.
But Naked was an outstanding commander and knew just how to inspire his naked legion of cannibal kids.
This movie portrayed the dictator so well. Scary and without "normal moral values", but still very charming and likeable in a weird way when you talk with him.
Yeah he gives a great presidential smile.
You can believe why people would follow him
sociopaths can be like that. VERY charming. smooth talkers. but in the end, will lie cheat steal and even murder you when the time comes. when i go to heaven, im asking God did you create sociopaths narcissists and pedophiles? if yes... WHY!?
Most narcissists are relatable. They are good at portraying likability.
Nothing on earth is worse than arms dealers. Not talking about FFL. Even the aristocracy relies on these lowlifes. Shame on these lowlifes.
that's just how rich people are
" A used gun. A used gun. Thats a good one." I always did admire people with a good sense of humor!
I think he admired the way Nicolas Cage had decided to resolve the potential conflict. Humor is the best way to do that.
@@nukacoaal it was not really humour from cage... as I understood it, his outcry was genuinely due to shock and he was opposed to the killing. the "used gun" was simply the first thing that came into his mind that would rationalize his outcry as anything but what it was.
@@RKBock well, I guess it depends on how smart he is. this whole drama could be also just to test NC. no one wants to do business with a pussy.
andy wanted to know where is his Nicolas stance on the current situation the best arms dealer talk only commercial interest once Nicolas made the outrage into the usage of his yet to be bought firearm which is his property instead of the killing of Andy property the soldier andy can respect that and be assured going forward that his arms dealer dont really give a shit how he use his weapons toward property in his mind which is the people
@@RKBock well it's him being smart. Being angry he shot the kid would have positioned himself as having doubted his decision making. Effectively calling him out as a ruthless dictator. However making it seem like he was pissed about it being a "used gun" demonstrates Cage was only pissed about greed lol and demonstrates him to be a MORE trustworthy arms dealer, as it's clear he holds high standards for the guns he's selling even though practically nobody cares about whether a gun is used or not.
"Would you like the armor piercing bullets?"
"PLEASE!!!"
Such a polite young man
I came to the comments section for this “...from Parts 1, 2 or 3?” !!!
"Merican Educated"......lol
LMAO
@@Montasir125 *polite young cannibal*
"Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: the Federation of Worse Oppressors Than the Last Bunch of Oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves Freedom Fighters."
Yuri Orlov
I'm still rather surprised they were willing to acknowledge that fact so openly.
That is not specific to only Africa though, same shit has happened in every continent
General rule of thumb is, if a nation has to call itself democratic in its name, it's probably the complete opposite.
You either sell arms or you don't. If you do they will inevitably end up with people that have the money to buy them. Many of the guns in this movie were from exYugoslav states, so really easy to aquire stuff without necessary paperwork in places undergoing bureaucratic rebirth. Otherwise there are legitimate armed forced and police units that require weapons, there's many of them around the world very often purchases can either appear to be for them or are redirected elsewhere in shipment.
West (as well as other ex Soviet states) arms practically everyone except few countries that have homegrown industries, but generally most of these countries don't descend into decades long genocidal conflict where cannibalism and child soldiers are on the table.
@@DerHalbeEuro You can definitely blame them wtf. They're the ones using the weapons lmao.
“If crimefighters fight crime and Firefighters fight Fires than what do FreedomFighters Fight?” -George Carlin
I still think this is Nicholas Cage's best film. When he tries he can be a really good actor. His acting skills are great for a character that has little to no empathy.
Cage has put out some masterpieces. Have you seen adaptation?? Its a bit more arty. Highly recommend.
Or pig? I haven't seen it myself but it was widely acclaimed.
I don't think his problem is not wanting to be good, his problem is that he signed up for lots and lots of movies that were so bad not even Heath Ledger could have saved them.
Bro you show up in all the comments sections I look in must have the same interests lmao
His cameo in The Flash is the only reason to watch that pile of diarrhea that masquerades as a movie
I think the ratio of the amount of sunglasses in this movie surpasses matrix reloaded
Deci you got recommended this vid too?
@@turtlepie7034 Yep. UA-cam sure works in mysterious ways
@@SuperAerie I thought I was the only one.
Deci this comment is gold!
But they actually need them in this movie. Africa's a sunny place and it doesn't have the obnoxious green filter the machines installed over the Matrix.
The scene where he blames mtv and then there’s a silence a smile and gunshots on the background , really amazing
Ok, but why? What is the meaning?
@@zyron7115 Mtv sometimes show gangsta rap
@@zyron7115 Because it shows in a creative way dictators hypocrisy. He is pretending that he is some benevolent leader, maybe he even believes he is, but all he created was war and misery for his country. You know how they say comedy is al about timing? Well... This scene is all about timing
Andy was one of the best parts about the movie.
All people are terrible, just to different degrees so being the one without a gun doesn't make you the righteous one, only the easiest one to kill
"Can you bring me the gun of Rambo?"
"Part 1, 2, or 3?"
"I've only seen 1..."
Like, wtf?! There's more?!
Well, it's the 80s, so yeah. Now we're up to 5, but just stick to finishing out at the 4th.
The first one isn't even the best one by some people standards.
First Blood is the best one.
@@Seth9809 the first Rambo have the best storytelling and characters caring.
Shame; 2 introduced the foregrip to the M60.
"ITS A USE GUN, YOU HAVE TO BUY IT NOW"
SPEECH 100
MERCHANT 100
@@jonatanfrigard4784 not my native language sry for the mistake
2000 dinari to buy. Sell it 5 seconds later. 2 sheckles.
@@jonatanfrigard4784 relax
100% probability to survive
Barter 100
That is, without a doubt - the greatest save by a movie character, in history. He was within seconds of death, by his reaction to the killing of the kid who was flirting, but flips it into indignation at the use of the gun. Brilliant.
He should have also been reacting to the hearing loss of shooting off a gun indoors without hearing protection. 😮
It’s a few hours of feeling like you’re wearing earmuffs, along with a constant high pitched ringing. The ringing returns a few times a day for the next several days.
“WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!”
“WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”
@@QualityPen Good point
i thought yuri was being genuine. i considered your premise, maybe i dismissed too fast. i feel denial that yuri would be shocked. yet he didnt smirk in humor and seemed upset genuinely. when it should be a demonstration piece he wasnt going to sell anyways.
@@QualityPen A 357 no less. That should would fuck up your hearing badly.
I love that you can tell that the dictator can tell that the shock was genuine and that was him saving face, but he seemed charmed by the quick-thinking brazenness of this play - he knows that this is a man he can do business with.
I love the way the son says "please" so excitedly when he's offered the armour piercing bullets 😂
It seems like the dictator scene was a much much deeper interaction between them, he wanted to see how cage would react to the shooting and he did react to the human life being taken but he caught himself and quickly made his interest become in the gun being used, he showed no fear and indifference to human life therefore gaining the trust of the dictator
last thing you want from you arms dealer is to get involve in your politics the best arms dealer talk only comercial
Great analysis.
Parental Guardian confused the hell out of me ‼️😅
Interesting. I never saw it like that
@Parental Guardian Yes it was, a dictator as ruthless as him wouldn't want his gun dealers trying to get involved into politics. As that would effect the deals. Remember the scene when yuris brother tried to sabataodge the deal and threw a grenade into one of the trucks, therefore getting him killed? Yeah, thats why he wanted to see if yuri was a pussy like his brother.
Damn, Wakanda has seen some dark days.
Yeah, Wakanda is the Liberals BS vision of the continent of Africa. Lord of War is the ACTUAL African continent.
@@wessonsmithjr.6257 if you REALLY think that how Africa looks, you are highly mistaken. That's just an hollywood set.
@@wessonsmithjr.6257 comments like this make you look like a complete idiot, grow up junior.
@Harjeet Singh Bhati what an extremely hateful inaccurate and stupid thing to say. you really are an idiot and disgrace to your country
das wracist!
3:31 What a polite young man. Not easily influenced by MTV like those other deadbeat kids who didn't have a father figure to raise them.
No discipline with the youth today
@@mustardmanmax5733 daddy issues
inked g0d
You talking about the “polite young man” or the commentor?
Yeah,he even said 'Please'.Such a fine young man
yeah he's a great kid who only brutally tortures, rapes, pilages, and cannabalizes people like his wonderful old man....
"They say evil prevails when good men fail to act. What they oughta say was; evil prevails."
That quote still stuck with me. Brilliant film. People like to shit on Nic Cage but he's an amazing actor, he just can't seem to pick his roles right. Or maybe he has bad agents.
Pig is a great film and Mandy he's a great actor for sure. I don't think many disagree he just has a reputation for being a bit bonkers
Well the reason why he's such in awful films before making is resurgence in Mandy and Pig is that he wasted his money in a lot of things like monuments and even an Action Comics 38, he got into so much debt that he started accepting every role he could in order to pay off his debts.
I think I've seen everything Cage has done and I can't think of anything that I didn't enjoy.
@@jimmaag4274 Same. He's always fun to watch.
He's bored with his own talent.
"Would you like the armor piercing bullets?"
"PLEASE!!!"
Look hes well mannered!
I just don't understand Nicholas Cage. he's starred in some of my favorite movies and some of my least favorites. His acting can be stellar, and also terrible
That's just life, consistence aint easy yo
Absolutely true mate.
No. His acting is always stellar. The plot and dialogue...eehhhh
I dunno, even in movies where he's terrible, he's still fun to watch.
I think it's not so much acting as movie selection. He is just terrible at it. Kind of like Ben Kingsley.
"my father is easily offended"
"My schedule just freed up"
😂😂
This made laugh so hard
Repent Jesus coming soon
@@Jesus4life8
Oh he's coming back for sure and he will only show you a face of disgust for what your people did in Jerusalem.
"How can I sell a used gun"? Ignore the script but that was a brilliant switch that saved his life lol
Jajaja im more impressed about the fact that he actually took a recently fired gun by the cannon without burn himself...
@@hernanweber3896 one shot will not make The barrel hot enough toburn you
@@hernanweber3896 it was only fired once it won’t be hot maybe slightly warm of anything
@@doncastersmackroids1039 maybe you have right, ive never touched something like that. I really though that the canon will be really hot
I think it had more to do with the fact that he realized that Yuri had just grabbed the gun out of his hand, *while it was pointed at him.* Baptiste knew that took some massive brass balls to do, and he respected the hell out of him for it.
2:28 His smile is perfectly timed as if the background warfare amused him.
He was being cheeky and revelled in it
"Personally I blame MTV"
_literal shots fired_
*smirks
This film deserves credit for debunking the myth that a Glock can get through airport security. No it can't. The whole slide assembly is metal, the magazine spring is metal, and of course the bullets in the gun are metal.
It started with the film Die Hard 2, I believe. Apparently, the film's armorer begged them not to do it, but they did it anyway. Glock did it on an x-ray machine to prove it wasn't true. Only 40% off it is plastic. Also the ammo.
@@MrPolicekarim Ah yes, the infamous "Glock 7" from Die Hard 2. I've talked to gun shop clerks who say they've had customers ask them for one of those. They might as well be asking for a plasma rifle in 40-watt range.
@sushi4life no one is anti 2A , you just anti- 1A, and myth also wasn’t spread by anti-2A it was more a movie thing. Also the Hollywood is heavily funded by the military and there is even a whole branch who’s main objective is to make sure that all Hollywood movie about America in war shows America military in the best light possible in order to get good funding and tax incentives.
@@samcalven12 no-one is anti 2A? Really?!
@@TheStapleGunKid is it phased or unphased?
Whose ready for Lord of War 2 Griner Boogaloo
Viktor Bout almost did 20 years in a can, did you know it?
Cage needs to do it!
Not too hopeful. Bout sold half the Russian Army's modern weapons stockpile. A serious contributor to Russia's failures in Ukraine.
I'd stay away from windows if I was Bout.
So then he comes out blastin!
Andre Baptiste is a fictionalized version of Charles Taylor, the warlord who was President of Liberia from 1997-2003. He was infamous for his brutality during both the first civil war, as a rebel, and during the second civil war, as president. He was eventually sentenced to 50 years in prison for crimes against humanity. During the second civil war, a number of lumber companies became fronts for arms dealers in exchange for lumber export licenses, which Taylor had canceled when he came into office. Leonid Minin and Viktor Bout, who Yuri Orlov's character is based on, are both thought to have sold Taylor weapons through those lumber companies.
Leonid Minin was born in Ukraine and later moved to Tel Aviv, among many other cities on many continents. He is known to have sold to Taylor and to rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone, and he is thought to have additionally dealt with Slobodan Milosevic.
Viktor Bout was (likely) an ethnic Ukrainian born in Tajikistan. After the fall of the USSR, he began selling arms to various countries, earning the nickname "Sanctions Buster" for his ability and willingness to evade UN arms embargoes.
Minin was arrested in Milan in 2000 and released 2 years later. He is still alive (75 years old) and thought to be a major figure in the Odessa Mafia, through which he still deals arms as of 2018. Probably, he has moved to his other properties in London or elsewhere due to the invasion in Ukraine.
Bout was harder to catch, as he kept changing out company names, residences, shell companies, and so on. He is thought to have acted on orders from the KGB/FSB. The US froze his assets in 2004 and he was arrested in Thailand in 2008; for the next two years, Russia argued for his release, claiming that his arrest was politically motivated. He is currently in a federal prison in Illinois.
EDIT: I made this comment months ago how tf you guys keep finding me. Stuff happened, check the comments.
best outcome for Africa is for China to buy them out, clear away the warlords, end the constant battles for the diamond mines and kick out any other conquers who wish to set foot. otherwise, Africa is going to continue walking the endless cycle of getting freeloaded by other countries, being stuck in endless civil wars, being left in rubble and having no potential for growth.
Of course he moved to Tel Aviv. It's always them.
I just listened to a podcast about Charles Taylor. Messed up dude. General "butt naked" was also involved. Liberia has had quite a tumultuous history to say the least.
The guy seems bad ass taylor that is
@@Kreuzrippengewoelbe historically it’s normally the Germans. Their short dicks have cost millions of lives over the last 100 plus years.
That guy who plays the son of the dictator is an excellent actor.
He was in Tears of the Sun.
@@ratagris21so was his dad, he was one of the SEALs
"Personally I blame MTV."
We all have been there.
I love the brutal honesty of the reality Nicolas cages character gives, also I’m sure people in the west care but their governments make sure their people are distracted.
Yeah it's just a bit of a mine field to help as far as I can tell helping those that live in these types of states, give aid you are destabilising/corrupting the local economy and making them dependant besides the fact that often many local governments (mafia) will just take most of it for themselves. Invest and you will be often considered too be exploiting them or being imperialist for buying out their country (besides the fact a lot of the really troubled countries have really high corruption or chance of nationalisation of investments making investments risky), and an intervention to attempt to help will be automatically viewed as neoimperialism (and also likely make things way worse see well anywhere America recently went) . So you can see how politiclly its often considered just kicking a hornets nest. And whenever they do one of the above as it's going to automatically seen in that view anyway so they think they might as well just go ahead and take advantage of what everyone thinks is happening anyway.
Though I should add I really do believe that we should help countries that are stable and actually care about their people with a whole lot more investments and support to further help build up countries which just don't have the capital necessary to fix certain issues.
Btw sorry if I came across to strong honestly I don't know too much about the goings on over there this is just my impression I've received over here, since you seemed curious what was the 'the peoples stance' however I can only really speak for myself.
People may care but they can't do anything about it. I was eight years old when the white war started in ex Yugoslavia....it was four years of hell.
No. No they dont. They just pretend to care to score virtue points.Those who truly care leave for Africa to actually help. The rest talk about it on social media and the one who virtue-signals the best gets the most likes. But its not about helping anyone. It never is. Its simply the latest fashion, a pissing contest between wealthy, healthy people in first world societies. In the past one showed how cultured they were by displaying knowledge of art, fashion, music etc. Now they do it by showing how "aware" they are of "injustice" and how "woke" it makes them feel. The only real goal is status among their peers.
Yes the same people in the west that hate and discriminate against Africans, Will definitely care about the situation of Africans under dictator (:
Buddy we don't care
This proves to me that Nick Cage is a phenomenal actor. For the movies he believes in, his acting is superb, and then, you see him in movies where he is terrible, and, I think that's his way of making a mark, in that, if he believes in the project, you get the real Nick Cage performance, if he thinks the project isn't, he still takes it, and you get the "Flash a famous name on the marquee" Nick Cage. If you look at all his "Great Roles", you start to see a pattern on who Nick Cage is, what motivates him, and when it matters, he dials his skills to 11.
Well thats kind of dishonest in his part. Unless someone forces him to act on movies, you deliver the performance you're hired to deliver.
It shouldnt matter if you believe it in or not, dont take the job if you hate it. I'm sure as a rich actor he can pick his roles..
@@PRubin-rh4sr No
Who here’s after Victor got released
“Heh, a yoosed gan. A YOOSED GAN. Dat’s a gud wan *_laughs_* ”
Funny body language cue: Saying "What an honor!" While simultaneously shaking his head 'no.'
“My fada would like to meet you” Cage-“what an honor (sarcasm)” lmao
"Bring Me the Gun of Rambo".
MrBlue3rd would you like armor piercing bullets🤔😅
Rambo 1,2,3?
OK CAMPIONE bring me the gun of terminator😅
@@jja1483 the one in the 40 watt range?
Bernard Delos Santos does it come with photon piercing rounds😃😏🤖
Can't wait for Lord of War 2
“Self Proclaimed” President..
Lmfaooo
3:38 I love how happy Junior is when Yuri asked if he wants the armor piercing bullets
“I blame MTV”
Gunshots in the back
Every once in awhile I like to drop the "personally I blame MTV" line into a conversation and so far no one has gotten the reference :(
I enjoy stealing Norm McDonalds jokes and saying “the worst part is the hypocrisy” in places it doesn’t make sense. Pretty everyone just nods along when you say it.
If you did that in front of me, I'd ask - "You don't happen to have any ambitions about ruling a small African nation, would you?" 😎
@@geobloxmodels1186 Just the other day, Officer Tatum was talking about BLM stealing... Er... REDISTRIBUTING... 6 Million dollars in donations to buy real estate.
I perused the comments and didn't really see that I had anything useful to add that anybody else hadn't already said, so I dropped in -
*"Where's the money, Lebowski? Where's the fucking money, shithead?"* 😁
I can't wait for the Spacejam 3 where we trade a basketball player and defeat the Russians with the power of diversity
Damn so this the guy they traded 🤣
Oldest comment on here is 3 days old, for a 10yr old video.
UA-cam on drugs.
Personally i blame mtv
General S. Grievous *Gunshot*
No one:
UA-cam Recommendations: Here is everything that has been ever Uploaded.
@@DANGER10101 satisfying
Sarman 😂😂😂
Can’t wait for lord of war 2
Watching this to celebrate Bout's freedom
I like how Andre knows that Yuri was trying to cover his ass with the “used gun” shtick. As an illegal arms dealer, *all* his products have been used before.
I mean...
That gun *could* have been new
No, theyre usually new!
The guns might be old, but many of them are not used. They often just sit in armories never used until they are decommissioned, then sold by people like himself.
Rubbish!.
FYI, 00:00 to 00:13 is a very accurate explanation of Africa's geopolitical situation from 1991 to 2001. Countless civil wars fought in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Angola among other countries.
This is SUCH an underrated film… way ahead of its time imo
No
Its not underrated, nor "it was way ahead of its time". Clueless comment from a zoomer probably.
@@lonewolf0281 Your grammar is wrong first of all. It should be, “it was way ahead of its time.” You know, with the period before the last quotations. Moreover, it appears 13 other people agreed by upvoting my comment. What difference does it make what generation I’m even from? I’m 27 if that helps you, sweetie. I’m glad my comment was able to trigger you so badly, lmao.
@@lonewolf0281 ALSO, you should have written, “nor WAS…” instead of just “nor,” lol. Learn proper grammar mate.
@@lonewolf0281 Spot on!
You know how loud a 357 magnum would be in that room, that thing is booking it out of that barrel at 1400-1450 fps lol
More mangled body too lol
Loudnes is not measured in fps.
For those of you confused why andre baptiste sr. (the dictator) shot the soldier is because the soldier was flirting with one of baptiste's lovers, so being the lunatic murdering sociopath that he is baptiste sr. killed the soldier.
Not a very bright fellow to be flirting with the lover of an... irritable chap like Andre Baptiste Sr.
He'll blame MTV for that too.
Of course, flirting with the lover of a dictator is a bad idea.
Don't flirt with other man's woman. Pretty simple lesson to learn. One of the most basic things to learn on Earth. Every culture knows this. Some cultures take it more seriously though.
Then again Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.
Some people just don't learn by words. So a bullet will do.
One of the best movies Nicholas has ever done.
Eamon walker is a superb actor
Was already in OZ.
Kareem Said was flawless.
He doesn’t even judge or insult Jr. For not seeing the other Rambo movies. He goes straight into the gun type & upgrade. “A” level writing.
Andre Baptitstee Jr's maniacal laughter is hilarious.
"You know, there is no discipline with the youth today. I try to set an example but it is difficult. Personally, I blame MTV"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He's not wrong. MTV is cancer
@@robertpatter5509 indeed......but Eamon Walker is such an underrated actor man. Was fantastic as Howlin Wolf as well
So we got brittney griner back and russia got this guy? Best trade in basketball history if u ask me ☠️ (were all gonna fucking die)
yea it's funny, were going to die too, sadly, worlds richest wish for it, so they could get more money.
@@an0nym00se4 they just want their post dystopian child fucking gun toteing paradise. Free of poor people and non pedophiles. They want impunity. They want devastation. They always get what they want. We should all love our families with reckless abandon from here on out. We never really know how much time we have left.
I actually believed Nic Cage got an Oscar for this role and been telling my friends this for years.
He honestly should have. His acting style is perfect for this film
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Spread the word. Everyone should think that he got an Oscar for this.
Really, he got an Oscar for "Lord of Las Vegas War"?
He won an Oscar, but not for this film. For Leaving Las Vegas, truly haunting and harrowing performance
This really shows how disconnected he was to the weapons he sold. Selling guns to dictators and cartels didnt bother him at all, but one person dying in front of him scared him. You'd think he sold vacuum cleaners with the way he initially reacted. To him it was just a product to profit from, he didn't have to see the children getting massacred by the guns he sold.
It is like Daniel Craig in Layer Cake. He says he is a businessman whose commodity happens to be cocaine!
Give me a break. Business is business. Save the soapbox speech.
He even said it in the movie, he doesn’t feel responsible whether gun is used or not, he only sells it
Who knew there was a difference between selling a guns and watching someone be murdered.
In the end he collected himself and push to sell even more armaments
This guy is now free
It's funny seeing Said as a ruthless dictator
I was just checking the comments to see if there was a fellow OZ fan
"Can you bring me the gun of Rambo?"
"Part one, two or three?"
"I've only seen part one."
That's some subtle but clever writing there. Rambo Part 1 was the one whose core message was 'war is bad because PTSD' and only one guy dies in the entire movie. Andre Junior completely failed to see the movie's message and just treated it like an action movie.
They used Rambo in real life to inspire troops and get them fired up so that they will be the best in combat.
I feel like he would like parts 2 and 3 much more if he'd seen it. Because, you know, macho carnage.
I think it's for that's a message for undevelopment
I watched American History X in class (rural town, lots of racists) and it was funny because I could literally see the gears turning on some of my classmates as they realized that maybe, just maybe their beliefs were not true.
And then the ending comes where the brother gets shot and they instantly conclude “oh, black people are bad”.
Smh
@@somefuckstolemynick what beliefs?
Another great role by Eamonn Walker.
It is not as they say... optional. My father is easily offended.
My schedule just freed up.
My boxers just filled up.
BuzzKill
-with your massive balls from standing up to a dictator after he kills someone in front of you
Well your father will have to grow a thicker skin. G'day.
1:44 "I'm bored baby, let's go to mine to watch MTV"
Ok lord of war par 2 when?
The dude is free Nba trade blockbuster!
"there is no discipline with the youth of today. Personally I blame MTV"
*Distant gunfire*
*unsettled smile*
🤣
This looks like Baltimore!
Camden yards.for..sure.
Good one!
I thought it WAS Baltimore!
Baltimore isn't nearly that nice.
It's Paris.
Me:
Everybody:
UA-cam: Let's recommend this to everyone after 10 years
I think they do recommend all those old videos bc most of the uploaders are inactive now and therefore they dont have to pay the money for the views
Maybe they’ll make a movie about Britney Griner now that she’s a celebrity for being traded for this celebrity.
"Personaly i blame MTV"
*Gun shots"
I mean....... Maybe it is MTV
Criminally underrated movie and Cage is great here.
Hell yeah
John R great movie!
rcdeathsagent hell yes!
*THAT’S A GUD WAN*
Personally I blame TikTok 🤣
(Adjusted for 2020)
"It's a movie about guns with Nicholas Cage"
the real WAKANDA
Forever
does wakanda have condoms
No need. If you fuck a virgin that will cure AIDS. No matter how young.
Wakanda For Ever
Dats racist
@@jabronis33 This is what the tandem cycle of random violence breeds! A vengeful black hit-sludge with a grudge hath brought the reaper you've sown in the goo of your guilt, as the créme-de-karma is roosting home to harm ya. It always ends up boning the poor.
I got so stuck with this video so I thought I was watching the actual movie.
the legend says he is still driving while shooting into the air
Other legends say that he's still burning next to the destroyed truck.
@@rickoshay5525 it’s wild how people don’t even watch the movie comment dumb shit lol and people like it 😂
@@brianwells5123 I watched the whole movie and I still like it. The whole legend thing seems to be a running gag and I took a shot at it.
"Personally I blame MTV"
“Can u bring me the gun of Rambo “?
Part 1 2 or 3?
jade stark
“I only seen part 1”
@@joserodram296 The M60 would you like the armour piercing bullets?
@@jaderounder yes, please!
@@walidzein1 My father left a welcoming present to you. Enjoy!
“Can you bring me the gun of Rambo?” Is one of my favourite movie lines
the fathers smile and sons laughs are priceless
can I have the gun from terminator, the uzi shotgun ? no the phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range, sure
hahahaha
Hey, just what you see here!
They are so hard to get ammo for though. At least outside Europe.
@@DrownedInExile **proceeds to be eaten by Andre jr.**
you mean "oozi nein millimeeda"
Every arms dealer in this movie is worth one lezzy basketball "star"
This movie is so underrated
"would you like the Armour piercing rounds?"
"Please 😁🙏"
Says it like a customer ordering a burger and discovering they can add bacon to it for 50 cents
Such a underrated movie.... classic movie...
This was one of my most most favourite films of all time, and this scene hit me. I was a quiet young awkward kid in college when I saw this. It inspired me to be a salesperson like Yuri, and it changed my life almost 180. So many years have past and to think my life was so different. Thank you Lord of War.
Salesman, but in which field? Went by Yuri's steps or tried something else, like human trafficking?
@@user-bu4ut2li1m i was soo young when I saw this. I was like damn I wanna be like this guy, because I'm so awkward shy person when I was in college. So I took up part time job as a promoter selling cars. After so many years different jobs, now I'm selling food sauces to chain restaurants.
@@rhyswong8976 In my late-teens I wished to become such person who's on short leg with many people, doing grey-business or to be journalist in a war-zone. Now I study design and IT, but feel that this office job is lacking real life creativity, street-wisdom. Especially, now, when AI coming, and in 15 years it will probably perform the most of routine jobs in IT and elsewhere.
But no AI will ever replace a human for other human, same as our thinking out the box. That's for sure!
@@user-bu4ut2li1m you study design and IT, and yet you still have passion in original creativity and street wisdom (which nowadays is so rare)... to me that's a positive thing man. That industry maybe lacking what you said, but perhaps that's where you are needed.
Blood looks so real
2:27 _"Personally, I blame MTV."
distant gunshots
grin
...Priceless! 😂😂😂
This movie is a masterpiece. Cage can actually ACT!!!!!
You can tell the dedication of a man to his work when he performs calmly even at the end of a gun barrel being held by a mad man.
The dead guy just laying in the street always stuck with me
“Personally I blame MTV”
*gunshots punctuating his sentence*
This film was brilliant
Underrated movie for sure
Great movie and honoured to have been played a role in it...amazing work Andrew Nicol🙌❤
@@DerHalbeEuro one of the two ladies in the car with the cowboy hats.
@@DerHalbeEuro She was the used gun. Feel old yet?
which one are u
Lmfao dude walks free
"Adebisi lives!!!!!!"
Now, that was HIS stellar role. What an actor, Eamonn Walker is.... Look at him on this one: the very exact opposite of everything Kareem Saïd represented. And He portrayed it just as fine.
@@pasajerodelabrujula8261 Well, "things happened" to Said, indeed, hermano. Pero nos quedamos con el Kareem original XD
I love the present André Sr has left for him in the room god damn
AIDS?
No the 2 hot chicks
Just ran into Walker at my work... Cool dude, down to earth...
One of the best films I've ever seen.
Glad to see he has been finally set free, i always knew he was innocent.