CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times

Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide Online

Bill Muller - Arizona Republic

Kirk Honeycutt - Hollywood Reporter

William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune

Philip Wuntch - Dallas Morning News

Steven Rea - Philadelphia Inquirer

Mike Clark - USA Today

Marjorie Baumgarten - Austin Chronicle

Lisa Kennedy - Denver Post

Kenneth Turan - LA Times

Tom Long - Detroit News

Manohla Dargis - NY Times

Owen Gleiberman - EW

DUELING CRITICS

"Lord of War is a bleak comedy, funny in a Catch-22 sort of way, and at the same time an angry outcry against the gun traffic that turns 12-year-olds into killers and cheapens human life to the point where might makes not only right, but everything else"

- Roger Ebert

"[Writer-director Andrew] Niccol stages ideas for scenes rather than the scenes themselves. He never quite creates a present tense, and the result is a dead pile of information in search of a movie"

- Owen Gleiberman